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Gizem Önal

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Gizem’s Notes & Highlights

Whereas by Layli Long Soldier

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

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Gizem’s Quotes

“Heart, have no pity on this house of bone:
Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview: Sonnets

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“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

tags: books, library, longing

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“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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“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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“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

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