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“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“We do not belong to ourselves alone, she wanted to say, but there was no one to speak to.”
― The Orchardist
― The Orchardist
“Where some women wanted mere privacy, she yearned for complete solitude that verged on the violent; solitude that forced you constantly back upon yourself, even when you did not want it anymore.”
― The Orchardist
― The Orchardist
“Why does the most exquisite rose have the sharpest thorns”
― The Hafez Poems
― The Hafez Poems
“What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.”
― Autobiography of a Geisha
― Autobiography of a Geisha
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