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I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

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
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Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
Worlds
Deeply
Alone
Others
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World
Recreating
Richly

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