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“Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216”
― Fatema Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

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“i am sexy cuz i read a lot”
― Me bitch

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“La magie des mots portera son rêve : “Je me ferai magicienne. Je cisèlerai les mots, pour partager les rêves avec les autres et rendre les frontières inutiles”.”
― Fatema Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

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“Oh, living is so uncomfortable. Everything presses in: the body demands, the spirit never ceases, living is like being weary but being unable to sleep–living is upsetting. You can’t walk around naked, either in body or in spirit.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

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