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“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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“But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.”
― Miep Gies

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“Then I understood I would never marry him. It's funny how one thing can make you realize something like that. One can be ready to give up the children one always wanted, one can be ready to withstand remarks about one's past, or one's clothes, but then—a tiny remark and the soul deflates and says: Oh.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

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