Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company. ✨ Sylv…

Sylvia Plath
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2007). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.70, Anchor
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