“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“The secret of managing is to keep the folks who hate you away from the ones who haven’t made up their minds yet. ”
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“It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.”
― Of Human Bondage
― Of Human Bondage
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