Sylvia Plath — "God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel …"

God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of 'parties' with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter – they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
Sylvia Plath — Sylvia Plath Modern · The Bell Jar, confessional poetry

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From 'The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath'.

Date: Undated, likely early 1950s

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