“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
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― Normal People
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― Vernon Subutex 1
― Vernon Subutex 1
“Sauruman believes that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found it is the small things... everyday deeds of ordinary folk, that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.”
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“A veces deseo ser como mamá, que nunca tiene esa sensación de perderse algo, sensación que yo tengo tan a menudo y de forma tan dolorosa.”
― You Are Not Like Other Mothers
― You Are Not Like Other Mothers
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