What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. (Sylvia Plath)

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Sylvia Plath

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