I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. ✨…

Sylvia Plath
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I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2013). The Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.157, Anchor
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I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2013). The Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.157, Anchor

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