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How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

by Deb Chachra

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Ariel’s Notes & Highlights

A Little More About Me by Pam Houston

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I’ve never felt like I’m on vacation if there’s not at least a little suffering involved.

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“It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.”
― Wallace Stegner

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“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: love, self-love

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“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: hope, love

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