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My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
Autobiographer
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Essayist
Novelist
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Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
Life
Prison
Discipline
Live
Without
Nothing
Work

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