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There Are Rivers in the Sky

by Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)

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“with rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others—or, in a word, partnership.”
― Paul Farmer, To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation

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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge

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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

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“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”
― D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

tags: loneliness

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