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I am in the Hoh Rain Forest in the Pacific Northwest, and everywhere is a sense of secrets. And for good reason. For everything that science does know about what, biologically, is going on here, there is so much more it cannot yet explain.
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“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
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“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.”
― The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
― The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.”
― The House of the Spirits
― The House of the Spirits
“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously . . . And now I seek my hatred and cannot seem to find it. I feel its flame going out as I come to understand [its] existence . . . It would be difficult for me to avenge all those who should be avenged, because my revenge would be just another part of the same inexorable rite. I have to break that terrible chain. I want to think that my task is life and that my mission is not to prolong hatred but simply fill these pages . . .”
― The House of the Spirits
― The House of the Spirits
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Stories that were made to be read three times: 1- To enjoy 2- To figure out the general message 3- To understand what the author wants to tell me
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