“I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”

—  Sylvia Plath

Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (1956-03-01)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

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