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The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores

by Diana Marcum

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Дизайнер Жорка. Мальчики: Книга первая (Большая проза Дины Рубиной) (Russian Edition)

by Дина Рубина

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“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it—it’s just easier if you do.”
― Byron Katie, A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

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“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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“in moments of high emotion—whether they’re triggered by anger or envy, humiliation or resentment—if the next thing you’re going to say makes you feel better, then it’s probably the wrong thing to say.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

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“I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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“So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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