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Wolf's Belly

by John August (Goodreads Author)

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Exposures: A Story About Life with OCD and the Power of Facing Your Fears

by Lily Williams (Goodreads Author)

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Dead and Alive: Essays

by Zadie Smith

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Rita_book’s Notes & Highlights

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

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I know enough now to know I know nothing.

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Rita_book’s Quotes

“Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.”
― Derrick A. Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

tags: education, empathy, enlightenment, justice, reform

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“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

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