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“But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?”

Knows College Europe Someday Bells Distortion Jars Stifling Bell Jar

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“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”

People Persons Two Rooms Crazy Extras Bell Jar Demoralizing

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“Don't let the wicked city get you down.”

Cities Wicked Bell Jar

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“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant loosing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

Mind Wanted Black Saws Tree Feet Sitting Sat Starving Wrinkles Figs Bell Jar Choosing One Branching Out

Author:Sylvia Plath

“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”

Knows Fall Fallen Comforting Bell Jar

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“I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.”

Needs Night Courses Fear Rooms Impossible Comfort Horror Right Now Wake Up Manage Shock Assurance Tunnels Psychiatrist Cement Bell Jar Shuddering

Book:Letters Home

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“Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.”

Ifs Made States Easy Alive Stones I'm Alive Bell Jar

Book:Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy

Source: Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy

“What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.”

Knows Writing Mind Said Book Bigs School Felt Study Plans Heard Minutes Europe Hearing Tongue Shock Grants Editors Professors Graduates Scholarship Graduate School Bell Jar

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“I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”

Looks Night Darkness Buried Pillow Bell Jar

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“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.”

Knows Said Wanted Bell Jar

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“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”

Thinking Said Helping Mother Too Much Cures About Yourself Bell Jar Thinking Too Much

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“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”

Wanted Bell Jar

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“That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.”

Said Mother Rose Funeral Afternoon Bell Jar

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“I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.”

Years Strange Nine Nine Years Bell Jar

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“I am made, crudely, for success.”

Made Bell Jar

Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.”

Life Long Wanted Economy Mets Bells Economist Jars Belive Bell Jar

Author:Amory Lovins

“I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.”

Novel Gone Lovers Europe Decided Bell Jar

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“A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I remembered everything.I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig-tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a grey skull.Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.But they were part of me. They were my landscape”

“The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.”

Ends Winning One Thing Eras Prize Scholarship Bell Jar Coming To An End

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“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”

Ifs Two Hell Exclusive Neurotic Neurosis Bell Jar

Author:Sylvia Plath

“Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.”

People Thinking World Feels Persons Shows Together Suffering My Own Events Color Add Pot Isolated Bells Lenses Breakdown My Own Life Jars Bell Jar Boiler

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“I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart”

Heart Book War Rooms Dying Changed Bird Lonely Lays Dare Weekend Bells Hunters Jars Changed My Life Tolls Catchers Bell Jar Whom The Bell Tolls Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Mocking Bird

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.”

White Skins Suicide Relatable Wrists Defenseless Bell Jar

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