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“Purpose isn’t what you do. Purpose is your reason for doing something. It’s the why behind what you do.”

Book:The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself

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“Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.”

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Book:The Sailor on the Seas of Fate

Source: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate

“While your passion gives you energy, your void sucks the life force out of you like a vampire, leaving you feeling depleted and disengaged.”

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Book:The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself

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“Does it seem reasonable that she should play so wonderfully, and live so quietly? I suspect that one day she will be wonderful in both. The watertight compartments in her will break down, and music and life will mingle.”

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Book:A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart: men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help. To one of her upbringing, and of her destination, the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence, when George threw her photographs into the river Arno.”

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Book:A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“But we fear him for you, dear. You are so young and inexperienced, you have lived among such nice people, that you cannot realise what men can be — how they can take a brutal pleasure in insulting a woman whom her sex does not protect and rally round.”

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Book:A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“She only felt the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”

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Book:A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“She was not a stupid woman, and she knew perfectly well that Lucy did not love her, but needed her to love.”

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Book:A Room with a View

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“She still clung to the hope that she and Charlotte loved each other, heart and soul.”

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Book:A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and — which he held more precious — it gave her shadow. Soon, he detected in her a wonderful reticence. She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci’s, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.”

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Book:A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“Freddy’s a good sort, isn’t he?’ ‘Admirable. The sort who has made England what she is.”

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Book:A Room with a View

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