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Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe's First Family

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Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

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“What is art but another way of exerting power? It was inevitable.”

Diane’s Quotes

“Fear is the enemy of art because it hinders us from creation. Anyone who uses fear to stop an artist from creating is an enemy of life.”
― Derek B. Miller, The Curse of Pietro Houdini

tags: art

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“Negative capability…quoting Keats: “Discard your memory,” he implored. “Discard the future tense of your desire; forget…both what you knew and what you want, to leave space for a new idea.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

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“Far from being a curse, uncertainty can be a source of hope.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

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“Confidence is necessary in life - to leave your parents' home, to begin a new job, to travel. But too much confidence leads to complacency, and to believing that my way is the only way, that my worldview is the view.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

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“Had he been in the house, he might have faced a lynching. The Klansmen told her that “good Christian white people” would not tolerate a troublemaker stirring things up among “the good negroes.” They smashed every window in the house before galloping off into the night. A few days later, the preacher’s wife gave birth to a son—the boy who would become Malcolm X. —”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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