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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

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“I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956

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“I am myself. That is not enough.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

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“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't see their beliefs, but I can see the things they love to do on earth. When you come right down to it, I do believe in the freedom of the individual…”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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