Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate t…

Sylvia Plath
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Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2007). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.151, Anchor
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I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2010). Ariel, p.18, Faber & Faber
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Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2007). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.151, Anchor

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