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“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
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“Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and the beginning of morality”
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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?”
― Atonement
― Atonement
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