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Geschichte der Schrift

by Harald Haarmann

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by Daniel Kehlmann

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Metamorphosen. Die berühmtesten Verwandlungsgeschichten: Ovid – Prosaübersetzung des Klassikers antiker Literatur (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek) (German Edition)

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Natalie’s Quotes

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

tags: castle, description, gothic, owl, purple, ruin, tower

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“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: insanity, sanity

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“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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