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“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
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“A mother's hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.”
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Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.”
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“There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Good English, well spoken and written, will open more doors than a college degree. Bad English will slam doors you didn't even know existed.”
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“Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
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