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Elle ’s Quotes

“To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

tags: books, meaning, reader, readers, reading, rereading

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“Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

tags: life-and-death

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“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

tags: friends, silence

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“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

tags: freedom, life, prison

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“There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

tags: bondage, escape, freedom, love

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