“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”

—  Sylvia Plath

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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

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Context: When I look around, I always learn something: to be always yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
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