Sylvia Plath

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• I talk to God but the sky is empty.

  Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (February 1956)

  • God
  • Prayer

• I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.

  Journal entry from July 1950 – 1953, p. 63 of the original, p. 55 of the collection

  • Emotion

• Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.

  Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (December 1955), quoted in Joyce Carol Oates, “Raising Lady Lazarus,” The New York Times (November 5, 2000)

  • Emotion

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy