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Oscar Wilde
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

Maya Angelou
“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
Maya Angelou

Virginia Woolf
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

George Bernard Shaw
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

Michael Cunningham
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
Michael Cunningham, The Hours

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