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Shauk, some people don't have the luxury of their own private bathroom, or quiet bedroom. People go to the library because it is one of the few places where quiet is upheld as a code of conduct. I come from a big family. I went to a big university. I've always had loud roommates. The library really was a sanctuary.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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