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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.

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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
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I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.
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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
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Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.
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I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.
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I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.
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Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.
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If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.
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Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.
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I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
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I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it.
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So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead.
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I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.
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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
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The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.
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But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.
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