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“It doesn't really seem possible that being happy is as simple as deciding to focus on what is good in the world and not on what is bad”
― Missy Marston, The Love Monster

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“I’ve often felt that my library explained who I was, gave me a shifting self that transformed itself constantly throughout the years.”
― Alberto Manguel, Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions

tags: identify, libraries, library, self

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“Why hadn’t people been nicer when it mattered? I wondered.”
― Akhil Sharma, Family Life

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“But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

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“Have the people living here under untroubled circumstances and at so great a distance from the wars of others been afflicted with a poverty of experience, a sort of emotional anemia? Must living in peace - so fervently wished for throughout human history and yet enjoyed in only a few parts of the world - inevitably result in refusing to share it with those seeking refuge, defending it instead so aggressively that it almost looks like war?”
― Jenny Erpenbeck, Gehen, ging, gegangen

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