It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
Sylvia Plath
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I'm so pathetically intense. I just can't be any other way. You know; you understand. And get this, I'm with you. Don't stop talking to me, please. It's as important as if we were the only people alive.
Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Edward Cohen written c. September 1950
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I deserve Paris and pampering.
Sylvia Plath in a letter to Aurelia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956 (March 18, 1956)
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I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.
Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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