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May

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May’s Quotes

“Life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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“Theirs was the kind of life that did not guarantee living.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

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“I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn’t know that it’s not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.”
― Victoria Chang, Obit

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“even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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“Inside her there was only the perfect, blank brightness of belief and desire. Desire is the cause of all suffering. The greater the desire, the greater the suffering, and now she desired greatness itself. With all her will, she directed the thought to Heaven and the watching statues: Whatever suffering it takes, I can bear it.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

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