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In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

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Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

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“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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