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> [“Sometimes I close my eyes and paint these walls a different color. I imagine I’m wearing warm socks and sitting by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tahereh-mafi/sometimes-i-close-my-eyes-and-paint-these-walls-a-different-color-i/)

[Tahereh Mafi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tahereh-mafi/)

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> [“At a certain degree of lucid intoxication, lying late at night between two prostitutes and drained of all desire, hope ceases to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/at-a-certain-degree-of-lucid-intoxication-lying-late-at-night-between/)

[Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/)

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> [Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/better-be-with-the-dead-whom-we-to-gain-our-peace-have-sent-to-peace/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [“The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-glance-of-women-resembles-certain-combinations-of-wheels-which/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/there-is-torture-of-mind-as-well-as-body-the-will-is-as-much-affected/)

[Felix Frankfurter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-frankfurter/)

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