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Jeanne is Currently Reading

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The Black Book

by Orhan Pamuk

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Jeanne’s Quotes

“Let me tell you something that goes against popular wisdom. Love is not blind; it just looks in the wrong places.”
― Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

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“To consider our greatest anguish an incident of no importance, not just in terms of the life of the universe, but in terms of our own souls, is the beginning of knowledge.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

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“he wanted the viewers to hear about the glory of the Trump family name. After all, this is the heart of the Fifth Commandment—to make your father’s name great by honoring him in word and deed.”
― David Brody, The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A Spiritual Biography

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“Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.”
― Christiane Northrup

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“There are dreamed anguishes that are more real
Than the ones life brings us, there are sensations
Felt only by imagining
Which are more ours than our own life is.
There’s so often a thing which, not existing,
Does exist, exists lingeringly
And lingeringly is ours and us…”
― Fernando Pessoa, Selected Poems

tags: desire, dreams, living, poetry

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