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I talk to God but the sky is empty.

— Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

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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.

The Bell Jar (1963)

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

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

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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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

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To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

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