"I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I……" — Sylvia Plath
"I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently."
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520 Quotes by Sylvia Plath
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