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Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3)

by Fonda Lee (Goodreads Author)

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“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
― Clifford Geertz

tags: psychology

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“The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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“It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: dream, grim-reality, hope, hopes, real-life

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“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”
― James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985

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“In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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