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“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf