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Sylvia Plath Quotes: I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses.
         

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses.


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I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses.
         



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