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Amanda’s Quotes

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

tags: admiration, disagreement

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“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way

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“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

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“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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