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Selene

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“What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

tags: altruism, inspirational, selflessness, woman

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“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?”
― Michelangelo

tags: foot, skin, spirit, spiritual

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“The only truth which she could discover was the truth of what she herself felt.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

tags: feelings-and-emotions, self-discovery, truth

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“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

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“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

tags: existence

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