The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar

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Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published...

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