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"I write to escape; to escape poverty."
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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."

"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."

"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"

"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."

"Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry."

"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs."

"It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal."

"I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life."

"Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?"

"Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed."
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