Julia

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Julia is Currently Reading

Julia is currently reading

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

bookshelves: currently-reading, dementia-and-alzheimer-s, death

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Julia’s Quotes

“Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.”
― James Baldwin

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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

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“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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“Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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