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We know a thing by its opposite corollary hot by having experienced cold good by having decided what is bad love by hate.

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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
Hate
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Corollary
Good
Experienced
Love
Hot
Opposite
Opposites
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