“Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.”

— Sylvia Plath, book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

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