David William Elswick

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Victor Hugo
“The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

L. Frank Baum
“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
L. Frank Baum

Carl Sagan
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Claude Debussy
“Un artiste est par définition un homme habitué au rêve et qui vit parmi des fantômes.”
Claude Debussy

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