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Lauren is Currently Reading

Lauren is currently reading

Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Jules Verne

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Lauren’s Quotes

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“Somebody" said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: death, lessons, loneliness, love, survival

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