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“Still, as I tend to repeat, I have some instinct for survival, for self-preservation. And believing you have such an instinct is almost as good as actually having it, because it means you act in the same way.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

tags: behavior, belief, julian-barnes, self-preservation, survival, survival-instinct, the-sense-of-an-ending

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“Le féminisme est une aventure collective, pour les femmes, pour les hommes, et pour les autres. Un révolution, bien en marche. Une vision du monde, un choix. Il ne s'agit pas d'opposer les petits avantages des femmes aux petits acquis des hommes mais bien de tout foutre en l'air.”
― Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

tags: feminism

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“Believers favour answers over questions, clarity over uncertainty. Athiests, more or less the same. Funny, when it comes to God, Whom we know next to nothing about, very few of us actually say, 'I don't know.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı

tags: athiesm, god, religion

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“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“Un homme est fait de choix et de circonstances. Personne n'a de pouvoir sur les circonstances, mais chacun en a sur ses choix.”
― Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, La Part de l'autre

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