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I looked at my body as the one of a rival: back straightened, but a little too large; delicate bust weighed down by round and heavy breasts whose nipples pointed permanently toward the heavens, as if to implore it. This student, ‘good
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“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
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“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
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“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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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
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