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Those We Thought We Knew

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“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

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“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”
― Sylvia Plath

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

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