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“No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.”
― Roberto Bolaño

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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

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“I have no country...my countrymen are the men and women who work against oppression- it does not matter where they are. With them I feel at home- we understand each other. Others are foreign to me." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth”
― Agnes Smedley

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“I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.”
― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

tags: gazebo, suicide

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“He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: happiness-fulfillment-desire

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