God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter …

Sylvia Plath
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God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust? ✨ Sylvia Plath (2013). The Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.13, Anchor
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