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“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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― Orlanda
“Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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