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Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.

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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down!
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Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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All the human actions we think of as essential to a character – had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.
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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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