“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"
"I give."
"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― Infinite Jest
"I give."
"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― Infinite Jest
“This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
―
―
“Harry - you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
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