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“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont
― The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― The Collected Writings
― The Collected Writings

“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden

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