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Meditations (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)

by Marcus Aurelius

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Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade

by Marquis de Sade

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Midnight’s Children

by Salman Rushdie

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“The only way to logically determine what, if anything, is actually true is to be open to the possibility that none of it is. If it’s true, you don’t have to protect it—questioning it deeply only reveals more and strengthens it.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

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“Forgiveness calls on deep reserves of moral courage: the courage to break out of the spiral of self-pity; the courage to set aside resentment; the courage to rise above biterness; the courage to act well, when all our instincts call on us to act badly. p112”
― Hugh Mackay, The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism

tags: bitterness, courage, cynicism, forgive, forgiveness, letting-go, moral-courage, resentment, self-pity, therapy

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“Never again will I wait for someone else to hand me my power. I’m able to move forward only when I acknowledge that what I do is up to me.”
― Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Growing Up in and Breaking Away from the Secretive Religious Family That Changed My Life

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“Memories are comfy too, they are swaddling bands, they wrap you up warm like a mummy. What moment is there in life that is not already a memory?”
― Violette Leduc, The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

tags: life, memories, the-past, warmth

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“We are bleeding at the roots, because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars, and love is a grinning mockery, because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the tree of Life, and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilised vase on the table.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

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