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Michaela is Currently Reading

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How to Love a Jamaican

by Alexia Arthurs (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 18, 2019 02:29AM

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Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War 1939-40

by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Michaela’s Quotes

“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms

tags: content, materialism

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“A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

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“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

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“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

tags: education, soul

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“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

tags: books, library, longing

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