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What gave the marriage piquancy was that it was preceded by an elopement, and this greatly captivated Adelaïda Ivanovna's fancy.
“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
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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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“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”
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“The launching pad for emotional freedom is always yourself.”
― Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
― Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
“So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).”
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