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We are the memories we don’t remember, which live in us, which we feel, which make us sing and dance and pray the way we do, feelings from memories that flare and bloom unexpectedly in our lives like blood through a blanket from a wound ...more

The Vegetarian

by Han Kang

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When I Grow up: A Memoir

by Juliana Hatfield

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

tags: sympathy

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“Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate.”
― Darin Strauss, Chang and Eng

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“...most art mistakes itself for the universal when it is momentary”
― Sarah Emily Miano, Encyclopaedia Of Snow

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“Ice vs. fire; free choice vs. necessity; weight vs. lightness; emptiness vs. meaning...speaking of emptiness, there was a time today when my whole body felt completely devoid of life and utterly without meaning. A character in one of Edith Wharton's novels says that "the real loneliness comes from all these kind faces who only ask one to pretend..." That is how I felt today, waiting anxiously for my afternoon pick-up, only to be let down, and later, facing the world (as if everything was okay inside). ”
― Sarah Emily Miano, Encyclopaedia Of Snow

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