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A Room With A View

by E.M. Forster

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Far From the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

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"I’m attempting to allay judgement for now, bc I swear I keep getting into this/ enjoying it and then Hardy will throw in a statement that makes me so utterly annoyed with him, and I don’t yet know enough about his writing or about him as a person to know to what degree he’s doing that on purpose (and for what purpose too I suppose)💀" — May 30, 2026 07:34PM

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

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Brenna’s Quotes

“I want you, dear reader, to remember that one holy way of mending the world is to sing, to write, to paint, to weave new worlds.”
― Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

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“Art teaches us to mourn for strangers.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“It might sound like an unhappy ending, but only if you forget how many times during this story we've told you that someone laughed. How many really good now's is that?”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

tags: laughter, the-present-moment

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“You can be whatever you want to in life, as long as you don't become a critic. Not of other people and not of yourself. It is so easy to be a critic, any coward can do that. But art does not need critics, art has enough enemies already. Art needs friends.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

tags: art, creativity, critics

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“Hawkes began slowly. “It takes a great deal to trust the future after one is acquainted with loss.” “It feels impossible, for longer than is comforting. And then too tentative to trust.” “It does. But it seems that sword pierced Christ so that we always have a future. Even one different than planned.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5

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