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The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood – Youth – Dependency

by Tove Ditlevsen

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May 03, 2026 04:38PM

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Growth of the Soil

by Knut Hamsun

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Mar 12, 2026 12:00PM

“It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering

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“I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection”
― Tupac Shakur

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“The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time... and a crayon.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: doctor-who

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“I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer