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Book: The Bell Jar
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  1. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
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  2. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day.Then I knew what the problem was.I needed experience.How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?
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  3. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.
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  4. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.
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  5. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.
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  6. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn't taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers' sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.
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  7. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.
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  8. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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  9. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
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  10. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.
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  11. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.
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  12. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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