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Primeval and Other Times

by Olga Tokarczuk

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Mimi’s Quotes

“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
― Charles Bukowski, Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd

tags: life

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“La rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa
hasta pulverizarse los ojos.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Árbol de Diana

tags: inspirational, rebellion, resilience

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“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

tags: mental-illness, sanity, society

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“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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