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How To Hold a Cockroach: A book for those who are free and don't know it
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Writing to Awaken: A Journey of Truth, Transformation, and Self-Discovery

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Ya te dije adiós, ahora cómo te olvido (Autoayuda) (Spanish Edition)

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“He was free but didn’t know it: trapped by the walls of his interpretations and stories, the perpetual trance of his self-constructed reality.”
― Matthew Maxwell, How To Hold a Cockroach: A book for those who are free and don't know it

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