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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
Eyes
Drops
Eye
Lift
Born
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World
Shut
Chaos
Perspective
Spring
Dead

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