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My fingers liked the feel of money. My eye liked to see the piles of money swell. I worshipped money.

— Lola Shoneyin

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Once you crash the idea of normal in your mind, all impossibilities become possible.

A real woman must always do the things she wants to do, and in her own time too. You must never allow yourself to be rushed into doing things you're not ready for.

Husband-sharing is ugly and, one way or another, someone's dreams are crushed when a new wife joins a household.

Anyone who laughs at you for showing your family respect is a fool.

The choices we have to make in this world are hard and bitter. Sometimes we have no choices at all.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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