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“You can burn libraries, ban books, boycott scholars, and blacklist intellectuals, but you cannot blot out ideas.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we’ve lived — not whether we’ve been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering. What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger.”
― Victor E. Frankl

“Defeats do men far more good than victories.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“Life abides between life as if it were an island amidst its own ocean”
― Wasif Ali Wasif, Wasifiyat / واصفیات