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“It has always seemed strange to me…. The things we admire in men—kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding, and feeling—are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest—sharpness, greed,
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“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“And she tucked herself away in a corner,
quet and foreign to the crowd around her
and all that kept racing through my head
is that the best kind of beauty
is the kind that is mostly ignored.”
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quet and foreign to the crowd around her
and all that kept racing through my head
is that the best kind of beauty
is the kind that is mostly ignored.”
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“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures”
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“Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. She didn't understand the words, most of them at any rate, but 'created equal' was not lost on her. The white men who wrote it didn't understand it either, if 'all men' did not truly mean all men.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
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