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Kin

by Tayari Jones (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 24, 2026 06:00AM

“Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

tags: inspirational, introverts, susan-cain

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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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“I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.”
― Alan Paton

tags: complaining, love

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“My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold,
my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your forehead,
love, I love you because you are clear and dark.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: beauty, dark, i-love-you, love, ugly, unique, uniqueness, wrinkle

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“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: freedom, solitude

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