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White Rose, Black Forest

by Eoin Dempsey (Goodreads Author)

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Michael’s Quotes

“Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

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“Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty....A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and felt like power. For the first time he honestly wished he could work miracles.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

tags: beauty, racism

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“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: atheism, education, religion, science

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“Insanity just is, a kind of natural disaster that strikes out of the blue, the kind of thing that can happen.”
― Jo Nesbø, Police

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“I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible, without a cause, a matter dark indeed.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

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