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Deep River

by Shūsaku Endō

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Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom

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Água Viva

by Clarice Lispector

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Purple’s Quotes

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

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“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”
― Shel Silverstein

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