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"A tough, emotional read, her grandmother scrubbing her until she bleeds is heart wrenching! I need to be emotionally strong to continue this one." — Feb 15, 2025 11:49PM
"A tough, emotional read, her grandmother scrubbing her until she bleeds is heart wrenching! I need to be emotionally strong to continue this one." — Feb 15, 2025 11:49PM
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
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" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
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