# Quote — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

> I am made, crudely, for success.

- Author: [Sylvia Plath](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath.md)
- Book: [The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/i-am-made

## More from this book

> The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

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> Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.

p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/frustrated-yes-why.md)

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

p. 63 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/i-desire-the.md)