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Well, there’s nothing I could have done differently. My life is what it is. But I wish sometimes that I had a different life.
“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
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“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
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“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
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