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“Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”
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“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“presupposes”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
“And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.”
― Mastiff
― Mastiff
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