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Possessing the Secret of Joy

by Alice Walker

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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: birth, identity, life, self

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“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

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