My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without whi…

Sylvia Plath
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My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2013). The Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.204, Anchor
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