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I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.
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La verdadera amistad, pensaban, resiste el paso del tiempo, es desinteresada y generosa, no pide nada a cambio, sólo lealtad.
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Despite being English, they served an edible meal." -A Long Petal of the Sea, page 108
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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
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The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.
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[D]as Gedächtnis [ist] schwach und der Lauf eines Lebens kurz und alles [geschieht] so rasch, dass wir den Zusammenhang zwischen den Ereignissen nicht mehr sehen, die Folgen der Taten nicht mehr ermessen können, wir glauben an die Fiktion der Zeit, an Gegenwart, Vergangenheit und Zukunft, aber es kann auch sein, dass alles gleichzeitig geschieht [...]
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El matrimonio sin pasión es como la comida sin sal.
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يقول إن البشر وحدهم يمضون وهم يركِّزون فيما فى دخيلة أنفسهم، ويمضون عبيدًا لأناهم، يراقبون أنفسهم، ويظلُّون متأهبين للدفاع على الرغم من عدم وجود أى خطر يتهدَّدهم
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She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
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