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If there’s a spider in the house, I use a glass and a piece of paper and take it outside. To open a tight jar, I pour hot water over it or give it a good whack against the benchtop. I taught myself to fix a leaky tap with a YouTube
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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