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Erik’s Notes & Highlights

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

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there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces; and it pleased him to see Mother and Father Wolf look uncomfortable.

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Erik’s Quotes

“So it was that the two were married. Their relationship, however, was, as we said before, completely stagnant.”
― Tony-Allen Cucolo, More Precious Than Jewels

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“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”
― August Strindberg, The ghost sonata

tags: blindness, poison, sight, vision

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“Friday, August 9 Nixon resigns. A 1-1 draw with Swindon Town on our way home concludes the tour of the West Country.”
― David McVay, Steak... Diana Ross

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“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Cesar A. Cruz

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“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence,—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone. . .”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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