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The Besieged City

by Clarice Lispector

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Berkeley at War: The 1960s

by W.J. Rorabaugh

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The Passion According to G.H.

by Clarice Lispector

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jen’s Quotes

“Paths that cross will cross again.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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“The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

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“We opened our eyes and turned in bed to take a good look at each other. We both knew it then. We'd reached the end of something, and the thing was to find out where new to start.”
― Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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“You're too young to decide to live forever.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

tags: inspirational, philosophy-of-life

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