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"THIS PART IS SURPRISINGLY UNPLEASANT COMPARED TO THE FIRST FOUR CHAPTERS. WHY DOES ALAIN DE BOTTON THINK I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE OR WHATEVER TECHNICAL DETAIL HE’S TRYING TO SMUGGLE INTO A PHILOSOPHY BOOK?" — Sep 04, 2026 10:31AM
"THIS PART IS SURPRISINGLY UNPLEASANT COMPARED TO THE FIRST FOUR CHAPTERS. WHY DOES ALAIN DE BOTTON THINK I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE OR WHATEVER TECHNICAL DETAIL HE’S TRYING TO SMUGGLE INTO A PHILOSOPHY BOOK?" — Sep 04, 2026 10:31AM
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
― BAUDELAIRE - the Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
― BAUDELAIRE - the Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
“He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through."
"How very rude of him."
"I told him I was."
Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady.
"I am very touched, Harry.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
"How very rude of him."
"I told him I was."
Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady.
"I am very touched, Harry.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
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