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"In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who did not show their kindness by finding fault. The world outside the books was not a happy one, Maggie felt; it seemed to be a world where people behaved the best to those they did not pretend to love, and that did not belong to them. And if life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?" — May 16, 2025 12:50AM
"In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who did not show their kindness by finding fault. The world outside the books was not a happy one, Maggie felt; it seemed to be a world where people behaved the best to those they did not pretend to love, and that did not belong to them. And if life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?" — May 16, 2025 12:50AM
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(page 400 of 488)
"Looking in the mirror people found a face of almost Cubist facets staring back.Given more opportunities than ever before,exposed to the growing rush and clamour of a myriad different voices,people found they were no longer made of one piece,that there was no single perspective that described them adequately.Not everyone who saw this fragmentation in his inner looking glass could live with the resulting image." — 13 hours, 43 min ago
"Looking in the mirror people found a face of almost Cubist facets staring back.Given more opportunities than ever before,exposed to the growing rush and clamour of a myriad different voices,people found they were no longer made of one piece,that there was no single perspective that described them adequately.Not everyone who saw this fragmentation in his inner looking glass could live with the resulting image." — 13 hours, 43 min ago
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
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“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
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“Touch has a memory.”
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Montaigne and his Compatriots
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