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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

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The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X

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Kat’s Quotes

“There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.”
― Edward Morgan Forster, A Passage to India

tags: evil

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“...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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“that the only thing on earth worthy of fear is a situation that is petrified, congealed, or dying, and the only thing worthy of joy is a situation where not only the individual but also society as a whole wages a constant battle for self-justification.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude

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“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

tags: history

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“And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it.”
― Paul Harding, Tinkers

tags: alive, confusion, death, life, souls, tinkers

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