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Faye’s Quotes

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

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“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

tags: books

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“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

tags: diamond, soul

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“I know many people survive, but I also think people glorify resilience a little too much, forgetting that the fragile ones simply die as the world walks on over their bones.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

tags: resilience

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