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Aleksandra

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Aleksandra’s Notes & Highlights

Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash

5 notes & 4 highlights

“the humiliated despair we feel when someone reminds us, through their accomplishments, of everything that has gone wrong in our lives.”

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Aleksandra’s Quotes

“It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.”
― Sarah Turnbull, Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris

tags: expatriate, travel

21 likes

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

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“I was so scared of being hurt that I'd done nothing. I was so scared of failing, of being hurt, that I choose nothing. I did nothing.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

138 likes

“I am yours.
Don't give myself back to me.”
― Rumi

tags: love

311 likes

“I will be waiting here....
For your silence to break,
For your soul to shake,
For your love to wake!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

364 likes

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