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Loathe to Love You (The STEMinist Novellas, #1-3)

by Ali Hazelwood (Goodreads Author)

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“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: happiness, life, sea

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“my body is a temple, and I am the god it was built for”
― Savannah Brown

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“Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

tags: political-philosophy, resist, tyranny

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“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

tags: life-s-journey, poetry-quotes, solitude

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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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