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"I really hadn't expected this book to be just so funny!" — Aug 08, 2026 02:06AM
"I really hadn't expected this book to be just so funny!" — Aug 08, 2026 02:06AM
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
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“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.”
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“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
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“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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