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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

by Patrick Radden Keefe

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“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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“It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

tags: darkness, past

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“No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings

tags: inspirational-life

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“At the bottom of everything there is the hallelujah.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

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