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"To us, a painter...from the seventeenth century are nothing more than entries in an encyclopedia. But in their day they were flesh and blood like you and I, and they poured their souls into these paintings for very deep reasons, sometimes spending fortunes on them or even risking their lives. And they never imagined that all of that would one day end up in a room in a gallery or in the corner of a basement."

"Luckily, a tip solves any problem perfectly well. When I first arrived I found it hard to understand, but now it seems to me a wonderful system: it allows the Spaniards to keep wages low, while at the same time making social hierarchies plain. Workers earn half what they should, and have to thank their employers for the other half: that way their subordinate position is reinforced." 🤔

kuya ano ba, seryoso ba hahahaha

hmm

For the Christmas feels

"Whether we are cancer survivors, patients, or totally healthy individuals, we actually die a little every day, they told her. Each day lived is also another day never to be repeated. Now all we ask is to spend our remaining days with significance."

"Education determines the quality of governance. An investment in education takes a generation to bear fruit. Likewise, countries feel the impact of this disregard for education a generation later. That determines their productivity, the quality of their workforce, their investments, and ultimately their gross domestic product (GDP). A nation's budget line item for education is an investment in its people."

Here's what I learned about popularity: people like you ifyou give them what they want. The question is: Is it what you want?

yup, i think i know the twist

interesting!

woah I wasn't expecting this!

"What could I do or stop doing that would make it easier to work with me?"

not sure how i feel about this reveal tbh

"After a certain age, we are all walking around this world in bodies made of secrets and shame and sorrow and old, unhealed injuries. Our hearts grow sore and misshapen around all this pain--yet somehow, still, we carry on."

i completely forgot that she's telling this story to someone 😅

"All the lines were, to some extent, arbitrary. The difference between tackle football and a bar fight and aggravated assault."

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"She'd learned that she wouldn't be believed, not even by her own parents. She'd learned that she should never be drunk, not even with her close friends. She'd learned that she should never again believe that any boy-any man—was completely trustworthy. She'd learned that there was nothing she could do, no lifetime of lessons she could learn: It was going to happen any goddamned way. And it did."

flying through this book. this mother of hers is frustrating!

ang daming pa-reveal! hahaha

the sad reality of having a limited perspective; biases that can leave one blind, even if deceit may be obvious to others.