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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.”
― Fantasy Encyclopedia
― Fantasy Encyclopedia
“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”
― Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
― Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
“Blind folk see the fairies.
Oh, better far than we,
Who miss the shining of their wings
Because our eyes are filled with things
We do not wish to see.
Deaf folk hear the fairies
However soft their song;
'Tis we who lose the honey sound
Amid the clamour all around
That beats the whole day long.”
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Oh, better far than we,
Who miss the shining of their wings
Because our eyes are filled with things
We do not wish to see.
Deaf folk hear the fairies
However soft their song;
'Tis we who lose the honey sound
Amid the clamour all around
That beats the whole day long.”
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Eileen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Eileen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
116 books
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66 friends
7 books
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15 friends
9 books
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26 friends
11 books
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14 friends
260 books
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50 friends
36 books
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42 friends
0 books
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61 friends
0 books
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6 friends
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