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Book cover for Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1) by John le Carré

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And Smiley, his damp hand cupped round the end of his cigarette, watching and hating, triumphed that he knew his enemy.

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Kelly’s Quotes

“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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“I took a step toward her. 'It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my right,' I said.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

tags: feminism, introvert, mental-health, self-care

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“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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“He was not poor - he could afford ten candles & two baths a week. He wasn't going to throw himself in the Thames for the misery of it all and God knew most of London was worse off. All the same, he had a feeling life should not have been about ten candles and two baths a week.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

tags: discontent, meaning-of-life, meaningfulness

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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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