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Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People – A New York Times Bestselling Memoir of Spiritual Exile and Freedom

by Dalai Lama XIV

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

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When you’re young – when I was young – you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something ...more

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“But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets. I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: "It's there.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

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“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: destiny, fate, fortune, learning-process, meaning, value

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“The key to understanding the meaning of race is understanding power. When you see how power has shaped the idea of race and continues to shape it, how it affects even the scientific facts, everything finally begins to make sense.”
― Angela Saini, Superior: The Return of Race Science

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“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

tags: british, debt, england, kiss, please, writers

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