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she has to sift through the world and decide for herself what’s good about it and what’s bad,
“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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