“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
SYLVIA PLATH
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Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar quotes for when you’re in that slump and for whatever reason you’d like to sink deeper into that bottomless hole which you’ve become so familiar with
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