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• cafuné

v. Brazilian Portuguese – “The act of tenderly running one’s fingers through someone’s hair.”

• kintsukuroi

n. "to repair with gold"; the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

• serendipity

n. the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way: "a fortunate stroke of serendipity."

• sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that ...

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• “You are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moments silence, "perhaps more so.”

―Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

• "The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is this way that love begins, and in this way only. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterwards."

―Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

• “I gave Patrick On the Road, Naked Lunch, The Stranger, This Side of Paradise, Peter Pan, and A Separate Peace. I gave Sam To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Walden, and The Fountainhead. ”

―Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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