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“All Achilles’s emotions seemed to be varying shades of anger.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if we lived for ever. As it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming. I love death - not morbidly, but because He explains. He shows me the emptiness of Money. Death and Money are the eternal foes. Not Death and Life. . . . Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. Behind the coffins and the skeletons that stay the vulgar mind lies something so immense that all that is great in us responds to it. Men of the world may recoil from the charnel-house that they will one day enter, but Love knows better. Death is his foe, but his peer, and in their age-long struggle the thews of Love have been strengthened, and his vision cleared, until there is no one who can stand against him.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Je pense à toi. Et cela monte comme une marée en moi. Je t'aime, avec toute la profondeur de l'être. Je t'attends avec décision et certitude, sûr que nous pouvons être heureux, décidé à t'aider de toutes mes forces et à te donner confiance en toi. Que tu m'aides un peu, très peu, et cela suffira pour que j'aie de quoi soulever les montagnes.”
― Albert Camus, Correspondance