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It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet. ↗

— Kasie West

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The Prophet (SAW) said: 'Knowledge is only gained through learning and clemency is only gained through perseverance. ↗

— Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

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To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago. ↗

— Brodi Ashton

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how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. ↗

— Matthieu Ricard

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The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

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I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed. ↗

— Ivo Andrić

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I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating. ↗

— Amanda Filipacchi

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