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Not God but a swastika
So black no sky could squeak through.
Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.

— Sylvia Plath Ariel (1965)

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I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

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The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.

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What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

The Bell Jar (1963)

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.

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