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Gizem Önal

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Gizem’s Notes & Highlights

Whereas by Layli Long Soldier

4 highlights

opaque. I understand the need to define as a need for stability.

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Gizem’s Quotes

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

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“That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....”
― Charles Schultz

170 likes

“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

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“The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.”
― William S. Burroughs

41 likes

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

tags: stories-writing

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