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Clemantine Wamariya
“Nobody is who you think they are at first glance. We need to see beyond the projections we cast onto each other. Each of us is so much grander, more nuanced, and more extraordinary than anybody thinks, including ourselves.”
Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

Clemantine Wamariya
“I've seen enough to know that you can be a human with a mountain of resources and you can be a human with nothing, and you can be a monster either way.”
Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

Hugh Lofting
“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
Hugh Lofting

Matt Haig
“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”
Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

Michel Onfray
“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
Michel Onfray

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