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The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.Joyce Carol Oates
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The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.Joyce Carol Oates
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And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you would not enslave any other person. You must be the custodian of your self.Joyce Carol Oates