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Book cover for Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
“If wishes were fishes we’d all cast nets,” he murmured. It was his mother’s expression and he always used it when he felt the blackness of tomorrow on him. Then he thought what an odd expression that was to be taking to a planet that had ...more
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Charles Darwin
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

Joseph Campbell
“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Washington Irving
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
Washington Irving

Virginia Woolf
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
Virginia Woolf

Eugene Field
“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
Eugene Field

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Apoorva
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Julie G
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Shoa Khan
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Manoj
232 books | 169 friends

Kanika
369 books | 88 friends

Ankur
473 books | 17 friends

Mr.Rain...
306 books | 4,278 friends

Vinusha...
230 books | 44 friends

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