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Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.

Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
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Victoria Lucas
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…beating time along the edge of thought.
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I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
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Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.
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