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Can It & Ferment It: More Than 75 Satisfying Small-Batch Canning and Fermentation Recipes for the Whole Year

by Stephanie Thurow (Goodreads Author)

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Taste of Home's Light & Tasty Annual Recipes 2006 (EVERY RECIPE FROM LAST YEAR)

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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

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“The only real flesh was the flesh that existed in his imagination. Since, therefore, he regarded the flesh as an ideal abstraction, rather than as a physical fact, he had relied on his spiritual strength to subjugate it.”
― Yukio Mishima

tags: buddhism, love, lust, spirituality

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“We are not the ashes of our past, but embers burning towards a future fire.”
― Steven Bruce, White Knuckle

tags: desire, inspirational, life, poetry

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“I should have loved,' Hal said after a very long silence. Neville's eyes filled with tears. ' Aye. You Should have loved.”
― Sara Douglass, The Crippled Angel

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“Who's to say my light is better than your darkness?”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: balance, darkness, light, self

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“Darkness does not leave without the light to chase it away. You need to have spiritual strength to pull you through the rough times.”
― Keith Shaver

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