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Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

by Alice Kaplan

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“People can't have everything they want. You should know that; it's a rule; people can have some of the things they want, but they can't have everything.”
― Edward Albee, The American Dream & The Zoo Story

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“Go forth under the open sky, and list
to Nature's teachings.”
― William Cullen Bryant

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“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
― May Sarton

tags: gardening, gardening-as-therapy, grace, nature, patience, slowing-down

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“About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.”
― Edna Ferber, So Big

tags: mistakes

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“Religion is at its best when it makes us ask hard questions of ourselves. It is at its worst when it deludes us into thinking we have all the answers for everybody else.”
― Archibald MacLeish

tags: religion, religion-and-philoshophy, religion-quotes, religion-spirituality, religious, religious-extremism, religious-faith, religious-harmony

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