“Wherever I sat — on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok — I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”

—  Sylvia Plath , book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 15

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