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“At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: hoarding

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“The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: power-of-words

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“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

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