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“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
― Daniel Deronda
― Daniel Deronda
“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved”
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“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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