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“Maybe it's possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”
― Book Lovers
― Book Lovers
“But now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“People are more than their worst act.”
― Master and Apprentice
― Master and Apprentice
“I don't want fear so strong that I am incapacitated. But there is fear that comes from being attentive enough that you realize there is life greater than you, life that was here before you and will be after.”
― The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard
― The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard
“But, my dear Mrs. Casaubon,' said Mr. Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, 'character is not cut in marble — it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.'
'Then it may be rescued and healed,' said Dorothea.”
― Middlemarch
'Then it may be rescued and healed,' said Dorothea.”
― Middlemarch
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