I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be t…

Sylvia Plath
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I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2007). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.83, Anchor
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