{
  "type": "quote",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/with-me-the",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/with-me-the.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/with-me-the.md",
  "id": "114ab97a-b76c-4711-b646-6f9493ac4e0c",
  "slug": "with-me-the",
  "text": "With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "Sylvia Plath",
    "slug": "sylvia-plath",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath"
  },
  "book": {
    "title": "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath",
    "slug": "the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath"
  },
  "character": null,
  "chapter": null,
  "chapter_parent": null,
  "page": null,
  "verified": false,
  "original": null,
  "other_languages": [],
  "topics": [
    {
      "name": "transience",
      "slug": "transience",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience"
    },
    {
      "name": "the present moment",
      "slug": "the-present-moment",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-present-moment"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Wikiquote",
    "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath#The_Unabridged_Journals_of_Sylvia_Plath_(2000)",
    "license": {
      "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  },
  "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:42",
  "more_from_book": [
    {
      "id": "d66393ee-11b8-4ce3-ba3f-9081e98e0949",
      "slug": "i-am-made",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/i-am-made",
      "text": "I am made, crudely, for success.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "success and failure",
          "slug": "success-and-failure",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/success-and-failure"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath#The_Unabridged_Journals_of_Sylvia_Plath_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "cd64bb9a-d880-4c1a-a7da-ddc74c4d2847",
      "slug": "the-abstract-kills",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/the-abstract-kills",
      "text": "The abstract kills, the concrete saves.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "thinking",
          "slug": "thinking",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath#The_Unabridged_Journals_of_Sylvia_Plath_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "ab01ac3c-b331-4ed4-9fbc-0c55a1cd1087",
      "slug": "frustrated-yes-why",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/frustrated-yes-why",
      "text": "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.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 158,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "identity",
          "slug": "identity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity"
        },
        {
          "name": "meaning of life",
          "slug": "meaning-of-life",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath#The_Unabridged_Journals_of_Sylvia_Plath_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:42"
    }
  ]
}