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“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
― Joan Didion

“Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.”
― Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.”
― Simone Weil

“One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.”
― Simone Weil