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Kelly’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Spies of Warsaw (Night Soldiers, #10)

The Spies of Warsaw (Night Soldiers, #10) by Alan Furst

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This land, like so much of the French countryside, was a painting, but Mercier felt his heart touched with melancholy and realized, not for the first time, that beautiful places were hard on lonely people.

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Kelly’s Quotes

“And isn't that how you become tender, vulnerable? The tissue-softening marination of your own mind, the quicksand of mental indulgence?”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

tags: anxiety, creativity, depression, empathy, mental-health

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“I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.”
― Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: A Martin Scorsese Picture

tags: archive-footage, bob-dylan, interview, singer

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“history is what it is. it knows what it did. bad dog. bad blood. bad day to be a boy”
― Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

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“This world was designed to generate winners and losers, and it showed a lack of character to wish yourselves a winner without accepting what it does to those who lose.”
― Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

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“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

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