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Mina's Matchbox

by Yōko Ogawa

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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

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The Burnout Society

by Byung-Chul Han

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Kat’s Quotes

“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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“MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT:

WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING
RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.”
― R. J. Palacio, Wonder

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“If you need something desperately and find it, this is not an accident; your own craving and compulsion leads you to it.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian the Story of Emil Sinclairs Youth

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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

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