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“The heart is a classroom,
the soul is a teacher,
the mind is a student,
and life is the exam.
The world is a university,
the universe is our professor,
wisdom is our homework,
and love is our final exam.
Life is an academy,
God is the instructor,
character is the assignment,
and virtue is the exam.”
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the soul is a teacher,
the mind is a student,
and life is the exam.
The world is a university,
the universe is our professor,
wisdom is our homework,
and love is our final exam.
Life is an academy,
God is the instructor,
character is the assignment,
and virtue is the exam.”
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“The winter street is a salt cave. The snow has stopped falling and it’s very cold. The cold is spectacular, penetrating. The street has been silenced, a theatre of whiteness, drifts like frozen waves. Crystals glisten under the streetlights.”
― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
“My bookshelves were groaning with WW2 books, Hitler's baleful eyes staring out at me from covers and spines for any new visitor (or passing burglar) to wonder if I might be a fan or at least mildly obsessed.”
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“Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“The novel integrates several forms of human intelligence - verbal intelligence (for the style), psychological intelligence (for the characters), logical intelligence (for the plot), spatial intelligence (for the symbolic and metaphorical content as well as the setting), and even musical intelligence (for pacing and rhythm.”
― 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
― 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
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