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On Women

by Susan Sontag

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""Within the next twenty years, they [women] will get equal pay for equal work and be granted effective ownership of their own bodies (through easy access to contraceptives and the legalization of abortion)."
– Susan Sontag, 1972.

Ouch... 😅🫣" — 9 hours, 24 min ago

Mar 22, 2026 05:47AM

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L'été dramatique de Moomin (Les aventures de Moomin, #4)

by Tove Jansson

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Med nebb og klør - fugler i myter, eventyr og folketro fra hele verden (Eventyr, myter og folketro fra hele verden)

by Tor Åge Bringsværd

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Achab_’s Quotes

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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“Pour écrire l’histoire de sa vie, il faut d’abord avoir vécu ; aussi n’est-ce pas la mienne que j’écris.”
― Musset Alfred de

tags: musset

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“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

tags: hope, light

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“Books are truer than movies.”
― Adam Levin, The Instructions

tags: books-movies-instructions-levin

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“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: happiness, life

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