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“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
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“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
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“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.”
― Oscar Wilde
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