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A Room of One’s Own

by Virginia Woolf

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Mar 20, 2026 10:08AM

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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“Experience teaches us that when one hears the doorbell ring it is because there is never anyone there.”
― Eugène Ionesco, The Bald Soprano: & Other Plays

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“كان الطغاة يجودون برطل من القمح، ونصف ليتر من النبيذ، وبدرهم، وكان أمراً يدعو إلى الحسرة أن يعلوا عندئذ الهتاف: عاش الملك ! فما كان يخطر على بال هؤلاء الأغبياء أنهم إنما كانوا يستردون جزءاً مما لهم.”
― Étienne de La Boétie, مقالة في العبودية المختارة

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