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Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez

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"“ she entered every doorway where there was something for sale, and everywhere she found something that increased her desire to live.”
she’s just like me fr" — Aug 26, 2025 05:53PM

Aug 26, 2025 05:51PM

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. this is my symphony.”
― William Ellery Channing

tags: harmony, life, wisdom

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“but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

tags: self

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