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Sylvia Plath1932–1963

Sylvia Plath on emotion

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

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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.
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