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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner