“I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.”

— Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

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