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“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

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“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

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“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

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“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...”
― Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

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“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Marley

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