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Unlike my mother, unlike every woman I knew, my aunt was educated. Her mind was an immense feral country that spilled its borders. She trespassed everywhere.


“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan

“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
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