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drink, I go back to the desk. I light the lamp beside me. It is silly, I know. I should conserve this oil, but I can’t just sit here in the icy black. I have to do something to keep alive. So I will write. It is not too late. I’m not dead
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“Between pain and harm, my mother taught me, lay a vast moral divide. Sometimes one must cause pain to avoid harm.”
― The Midwife's Revolt
― The Midwife's Revolt
“give every man thine ear but few thy voice.”
― The Midwife's Revolt
― The Midwife's Revolt
“You must learn to love yourself and your own company. As for others, there is no guarantee. You have only yourself for certain, until the last breath.”
― The Midwife's Revolt
― The Midwife's Revolt
“But the mind must have the story and, missing the truth, will piece together a fiction from ragged scraps.”
― The Midwife's Revolt
― The Midwife's Revolt
“it is more honorable to be kind even if one is not repaid with kindness.”
― The Midwife's Revolt
― The Midwife's Revolt
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