

“If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.”
― Just One Day
― Just One Day

“A big thing can be simply the sum of small things.”
― Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems
― Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”
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“Now, aware of my invisibility, I live rent-free in a building rented strictly to whites, in a section of the basement that was shut off and forgotten during the nineteenth century, which I discovered when I was trying to escape in the night from Ras the Destroyer. But that's getting too far ahead of the story, almost to the end, although the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
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