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“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
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“... nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.”
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“You are much more than the sum of what you produce.”
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“Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.”
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“Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative — these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.”
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“... he stood up and looked down at his bed accusingly, as a man might look at his tormentor. He saw its battered pillow, its blankets slipping to the floor. Sinking to the floor, he amended, staggering to the floor. Perhaps he was the tormentor and the bed his victim.”
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“Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.”
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“... human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.”