some more Sylvia Plath quotes

sorry for the overload of glorious SP backwash. this lady understands me to the bone.

"It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative-- whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it."
-SP

"Independence Day: how many people know from what they are free, from what they are imprisoned."
-SP

"Unless the self has enormous centering power, it flies off in all directions through space without the bracing & regulating tensions of necessary work, other people & their lives."
-SP

"The great fault of America-- this part of it-- is its air of pressure: expectancy of conformity."
-SP

"...the cremation fires burning in the dead eyes of Anne Franck: horror on horror, injustice on cruelty-- all accessible, various-- how can the soul keep from flying to fragments-- disintegrating, in one wild dispersal?"
-SP

"I hated men because they didn't stay around and love me like a father: i could prick holes in them & show they were no father-material."
-SP

"So what does she know about love? Nothing. You should have it. You should get it. It's nice. But what is it?"
-SP

"I felt cheated: I wasn't loved but all the signs said I was loved: the world said i was loved: the powers-that-were said i was loved."
-SP

"...it's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all."
-SP

"Who am i angry at? Myself. No, not yourself. Who is it? It is my father and all the fathers i have known who have wanted me to be what i have not felt like really being from my heart and at the society which seems to want us to be what we do not want to be from our hearts: i am angry at these people and images."
-SP

"Is it dangerous to be happy? One feels that is her secret life-philosophy: the minute you dare to be happy fate smacks you a low blow."
-SP

"Why is telling her of a success so unsatisfying: because one success is never enough: when you love, you have an infinite lease of it. When you approve, you only approve single acts. Thus approval has a short dateline. the question is: so much for that, good, but now, what is the next thing?"
-SP

"Lord knows what is happening to me: i am dying of inertia. Is it a defense, not working: then i can't be critisized for what i do."
-SP

"What insight am i trying to get to free what? If my emotional twists are at the bottom of misery, how can i get to know what they are and what to do with them?"
-SP

"If you are dead, no one can critisize you, or if they do, it doesn't hurt."
-SP

"I need an outsider: fell like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can't understand a word he's saying."
-SP