"Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand."
"I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people's minds and souls."
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Source: Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.296, Faber & Faber
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