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He was doing it again, building bridges to places that didn’t exist, wanting it all too much, too openly.
“Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.”
― The Librarian of Auschwitz
― The Librarian of Auschwitz
“Both had lost parents at an early age, and while Albert did not have a rift with his father as Victoria did with her mother, both ached for an idyllic domesticity they had dreamed of as children.”
― Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
― Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
“She observed wisely of her cinema alter ego: "Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere. Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.”
― The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds and Affairs of More than 100 American Movie and TV Idols
― The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds and Affairs of More than 100 American Movie and TV Idols
“It’s the nature of our society that I’m considered unworthy of huge financial reward for that risk. But what can be earned is a certain nobility—not in the sense of aristocratic status but in the sense of striving for quality and dignity of behavior and living.”
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
― Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
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