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Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

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Burn the Haystack: Decode Dating, Torch the Duds, and Make Room for Men Who Matter

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“Kind people who put others before themselves would be the first to die. It was the ruthless and the selfish who would survive.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story

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“A grey-haired wrinkled man has not necessarily lived long. More accurately, he has existed long.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: De Brevitate Vitae (A New Translation)

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“Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.”
― Hyeonseo Lee

tags: defector, inspirational, memoir, north-korea, north-korean-famine

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“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“The sessions taught me a survival lesson. I had to be discreet, be cautious about what I said and did, and be very wary of others. Already I was acquiring the mask that the adults wore from long practice. Often,”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story

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