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“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

tags: beauty, the-bluest-eye, toni-morrison

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

tags: ethic, habits, morality, virtue

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“I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad feminist, until I no longer feel like what I want is impossible. I no longer want to believe that these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

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“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

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“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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