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Reading for the 13th time
read in January 2016
Translated by DOROTHY L. SAYERS and BARBARA REYNOLDS
“Whoever enforces equality itself brings inequality.”
― MORALITY An Individual Dilemma
― MORALITY An Individual Dilemma
“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
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“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
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“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
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“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
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