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“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
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“the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.”
― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
“nineteenth-century feminism was defeated by men's adamant refusal to take responsibility for maintaining themselves and their children;”
― From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 3
― From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 3
“he who will not pass through this curriculum is helped very little by the fact that he was born in the most enlightened age.”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
“am not unacquainted with the dreadful, my memory is a faithful wife, and my imagination is (as I myself am not) a diligent little maiden who all day sits quietly at her work, and in the evening knows how to chat to me about it so prettily that I must look at it, though not always, I must say, is it landscapes, or flowers, or pastoral idylls she paints. I have seen the dreadful before my own eyes, I do not flee from it timorously, but I know very well that, although I advance to meet it, my courage is not the courage of faith, nor anything comparable to it.”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
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