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“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― A Hat Full of Sky
― A Hat Full of Sky
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
“It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.”
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