"I had removed my patent leather shoes after……" — Sylvia Plath
"I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead."
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Sylvia Plath
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520 Quotes by Sylvia Plath
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The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
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The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
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Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
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