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Explore the profound and often dark wisdom of Sylvia Plath through her most memorable quotes. This collection delves into her thoughts on identity, madness, love, and the human condition. Featuring insights that resonate deeply, much like the works of Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, and Anne Sexton.

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00:00I am not a cat. I am not a mouse. I am a man. I am a woman. I am
00:10a god. I am a devil. I am a king. I am a queen. I am a soldier. I am
00:20a sailor. I am a father. I am a mother. I am a child.
00:28I am a lover. I am a hater. I am a saint. I am a sinner. I am a fool.
00:39I am a wise man. I am a poet. I am a painter. I am a musician. I am a
00:49dancer. I am a singer. I am a clown. I am a juggler.
00:58I am a magician. I am a wizard. I am a witch. I am a witch. I am a witch.
01:08I am a witch.
01:11Sylvia Plath
01:15I want to be a writer. I want to be a poet. I want to be a novelist.
01:23I want to be a playwright. I want to be a screenwriter. I want to be a lyricist. I want
01:32to be a songwriter.
01:34I want to be a composer. I want to be a conductor. I want to be a singer. I want
01:42to be a dancer.
01:44I want to be an actor. I want to be a director. I want to be a producer. I want
01:53to be a painter.
01:55I want to be a sculptor. I want to be a photographer. I want to be a filmmaker. I want
02:05to be an architect.
02:07I want to be a designer. I want to be a fashion designer. I want to be a jewelry designer.
02:16I want to be a graphic designer. I want to be a graphic designer. I want to be a web
02:20designer.
02:22I want to be a game designer. I want to be a software engineer.
02:28I want to be a computer programmer. I want to be a data scientist. I want to be an artificial
02:36intelligence researcher.
02:39I want to be a machine learning engineer. I want to be a robotics engineer.
02:46I want to be an aerospace engineer. I want to be a mechanical engineer.
02:53I want to be a biomedical engineer. I want to be a biomedical engineer.
03:07I want to be a material scientist. I want to be a physicist.
03:13I want to be a chemist. I want to be a biologist.
03:18I want to be a geologist. I want to be an astronomer.
03:24I want to be a mathematician. I want to be a statistician.
03:30I want to be a philosopher. I want to be a psychologist.
03:36I want to be a sociologist. I want to be an anthropologist.
03:42I want to be an economist. I want to be a linguist.
03:55I want to be a theologian. I want to be a mythologist.
04:00I want to be a folklorist. I want to be a cultural critic.
04:06I want to be a literary critic. I want to be a film critic.
04:13I want to be an art critic. I want to be a music critic.
04:18I want to be a theater critic. I want to be a dance critic.
04:24I want to be a fashion critic. I want to be a food critic.
04:30I want to be a travel writer. I want to be a journalist. I want to be an editor.
04:39I want to be a publisher. I want to be a librarian. I want to be a curator.
04:47I want to be a museum director. I want to be a gallery owner.
04:53I want to be an art dealer. I want to be a collector.
04:59I want to be an investor. I want to be an entrepreneur.
05:05I want to be a businessman. I want to be a businesswoman.
05:11I want to be a CEO. I want to be a president.
05:16I want to be a prime minister. I want to be a king.
05:22I want to be a queen. I want to be an emperor.
05:27I want to be an empress. I want to be a pope. I want to be a cardinal. I want
05:35to be a bishop.
05:37I want to be a priest. I want to be a rabbi. I want to be an imam. I want
05:45to be a monk.
05:47I want to be a nun. I want to be a guru. I want to be a prophet. I want
05:55to be a saint.
05:57I want to be a martyr. I want to be a hero. I want to be a villain. I want
06:05to be a god.
06:07I want to be a devil. I want to be a human being. I want to be a woman. I
06:15want to be a mother.
06:17I want to be a father. I want to be a child. I want to be a lover. I want
06:25to be a hater.
06:27I want to be a friend. I want to be an enemy. I want to be a stranger. I want
06:35to be a neighbor.
06:37I want to be a citizen. I want to be a resident. I want to be a visitor. I want
06:46to be a tourist.
06:48I want to be a refugee. I want to be an immigrant. I want to be an emigrant. I want
06:57to be a native.
06:59I want to be an alien. I want to be an extraterrestrial. I want to be a space traveler.
07:08I want to be an astronaut. I want to be a cosmonaut. I want to be a pilot. I want
07:17to be a captain.
07:19I want to be a commander. I want to be a general. I want to be a colonel. I want
07:27to be a major.
07:29I want to be a captain. I want to be a lieutenant. I want to be a sergeant. I want
07:38to be a corporal.
07:40I want to be a private. I want to be a soldier. I want to be a sailor. I want
07:48to be a marine.
07:50I want to be an airman. I want to be a coast guard. I want to be a police officer.
07:58I want to be a firefighter.
08:01I want to be a paramedic.
08:04I want to be a doctor.
08:07I want to be a nurse.
08:09I want to be a surgeon.
08:12I want to be a dentist.
08:14I want to be a veterinarian.
08:17I want to be a teacher.
08:20I want to be a professor.
08:23I want to be a researcher.
08:26I want to.
08:28be a scientist. I want to be an inventor. I want to be an explorer. I want to be a
08:37discoverer.
08:39I want to be a pioneer. I want to be a revolutionary. I want to be a leader.
08:47I want to be a follower. I want to be a rebel. I want to be an obedient person.
08:56I want to be a free spirit. I want to be a conformist. I want to be an individual.
09:04I want to be a member of society. I want to be an outsider. I want to be an insider.
09:13I want to be a part of the world. I want to be detached from the world.
09:20I want to be alive. I want to be dead. I want to be. I don't want to be.
09:29Sylvia Plath
09:33The only way to keep from going mad is to go mad yourself.
09:38Sylvia Plath
09:41I am terrified by this dark love. Sylvia Plath
09:49I felt like a ghost, a pale imitation of myself. Sylvia Plath
09:58I am a camera with its shutter open, constantly soaking in images.
10:04Sylvia Plath
10:07I should exist in a world that does not want me.
10:12Sylvia Plath
10:13I am learning to live with my own madness.
10:19Sylvia Plath
10:23The black hours are not for me.
10:27Sylvia Plath
10:30I am a woman, and I am a poet, and I am a mother, and I am a lover, and
10:35I am a hater, and I am a saint, and I am a sinner, and I am a fool, and
10:39I am a wise man, and I am a king, and I am a queen, and I am a soldier,
10:43and I am a sailor, and I am a father, and I am a child, and I am a devil,
10:48and I am a god, and I am a witch.
10:51Sylvia Plath
10:54I think I will be a flower at last. Sylvia Plath
11:02I want to be free. I want to be myself. I want to be human. Sylvia Plath
11:13I am not whole. I am not broken. I am something else. Sylvia Plath
11:24The world is a beautiful place, but it is also a terrible place. Sylvia Plath
11:31I have a passion for life. I have a passion for death. Sylvia Plath
11:43I am a bird. I am a moth. I am a bee. Sylvia Plath
11:51I am a prisoner of my own mind. Sylvia Plath
11:59I am a canvas. I am a paint. I am a brush. Sylvia Plath
12:12I have a dream. I have a nightmare. Sylvia Plath
12:20I am a mirror. I am a reflection. I am an image. Sylvia Plath
12:31I am a writer. I am a poet. I am a mother. I am a woman. Sylvia Plath
12:42I am a mother. Sylvia Plath

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