“How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.”
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“Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.”
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“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
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“A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king.”
― The Sun Is Snowing: Poetry & Prose by C. Joybell C
― The Sun Is Snowing: Poetry & Prose by C. Joybell C
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