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The Suspended Passion: Interviews (The French List)

by Marguerite Duras

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― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
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“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”
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“Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

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