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In Patagonia

by Bruce Chatwin

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Aug 13, 2020 06:52PM

Jamie’s Quotes

“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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“The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

tags: death, failure, rebirth

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“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

tags: hard, poetry

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“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe

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