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― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.”
― Possession
― Possession
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