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“Whether this is my end or a new beginning I have no way of knowing: I have given myself over into the hands of strangers, because it can't be helped. And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“It’s all a process, steps along a path. Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor. Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“I believe that when too many people gather together, lured by a promise and immediately demanding something, there is never any knowing who among them speaks.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“In any case a civilization which insists upon compulsory education must logically insist upon compulsory health of the children it educates.”
― Fighting for Life
― Fighting for Life
“Try for yourself, if that be your spirit. I have done, and yield the argument to your saucy insolence.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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