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Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
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Dr. Bouland had been holding on to a piece of skin from a woman’s back for some years and decided it would be put to good use as a covering for his brokenhearted friend’s new book.
“Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“Dr. Ian Malcolm, "God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs"
Dr. Ellie Sattler, "Dinosaurs eat man..... Woman inherits the earth”
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Dr. Ellie Sattler, "Dinosaurs eat man..... Woman inherits the earth”
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“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
“That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
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