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Elif Akyol

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Elif’s Quotes

“There is an old saying: "No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.”
― Florence Scovel

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“I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

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“...for I realized how narrow my world had been and that self-education could be and should be an exciting life-long adventure.”
― Aurelia Schober Plath, Letters Home

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“A book is like the best friend you can imagine. Once you read a book, it stays with you forever.”
― Jessica McCann, All Different Kinds of Free

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“If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

tags: determination, happiness, optimism, suffering

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