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This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all.

This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all.
– Sylvia Plath

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  2. I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree. – Sylvia Plath
  3. Talking about my fears to others feeds it. – Sylvia Plath
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  5. Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was a wintry November morning! – Avijeet Das
  6. We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you. – Sylvia Plath
  7. Then it hit me and I just blurted, ‘I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them. – Sylvia Plath
  8. I love the people,’ I said. ‘I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives. – Sylvia Plath
  9. I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me. – Sylvia Plath
  10. And of course I didn’t know who would marry me now that I’d been where I had been. I didn’t know at all. – Sylvia Plath
  11. Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse – Sylvia Plath
  12. What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit’s cry may be wilderBut it has no soul. – Sylvia Plath
  13. A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. – Sylvia Plath
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  15. When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. – Sylvia Plath
  16. I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play. – Sylvia Plath
  17. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. – Sylvia Plath
  18. The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. – Sylvia Plath
  19. Unless you can be yourself, you won’t stay with anyone for long. – Sylvia Plath
  20. I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can. – Sylvia Plath
  21. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion. – Sylvia Plath
  22. How we need another soul to cling to. – Sylvia Plath
  23. Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill. – Sylvia Plath
  24. I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn’t say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. – Sylvia Plath
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  26. My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. – Sylvia Plath
  27. I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow. – Sylvia Plath
  28. I’m not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else. – Sylvia Plath
  29. All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence. – Sylvia Plath
  30. The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault. – Sylvia Plath
  31. I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. – Sylvia Plath
  32. I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. – Sylvia Plath
  33. She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist. – Sylvia Plath
  34. How frail the human heart must be-•a mirrored pool of thought. – Sylvia Plath
  35. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. – Sylvia Plath
  36. Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep. – Sylvia Plath
  37. And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness. – Sylvia Plath
  38. The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls. – Sylvia Plath
  39. I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. – Sylvia Plath
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