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After the war, unable or unwilling to return to their homes, many Hasidic survivors instead decided to immigrate to the United States, with those from Hungary and Romania settling in Williamsburg in particular.
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Arundhati Roy
“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Oscar Wilde
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Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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