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Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 22

by Hiromu Arakawa

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A livreira no fim do mundo

by Ruth Shaw

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Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien

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A cold kiss from Father Nicholas Christmas

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Karen’s Quotes

“Constantine Levin did not like talking or hearing about the beauty of nature. Words seemed to detract from the beauty of what he was looking at.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: nature

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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

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“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: bravery, courage

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“All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager!
Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!”
― Portal 2

tags: gaming, humor, inspirational, portal

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“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
― Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

tags: books, reading

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