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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
– Sylvia Plath

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  21. I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can. – Sylvia Plath
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