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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.”
― The Tale of Despereaux
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.”
― The Tale of Despereaux
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