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Virginia Woolf
“The public and private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.”
Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
Jelaluddin Rumi

John Donne
“And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.”
John Donne

Jean-Henri Fabre
“What matters in learning is not to be taught, but to wake up.”
Jean-Henri Fabre, The Passionate Observer

Mohsin Hamid
“But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.”
Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

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