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Jade Fire Gold

by June C.L. Tan (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 24, 2026 09:46PM

“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: existentialism, feminism

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“All glory comes from daring to begin”
― Eugene F. Ware

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“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes from the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and healed, to have despaired and recovered hope.”
― George Elliot

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.”
― Voltaire

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