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‘Know no shame at your hungers, Gabriel. Like all in heaven above and earth below, they are the will of God.’ Jean-François drew a bottle of ink from his coat pocket, unstopped its cork. ‘And made as you are in his image, your sickness is
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
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“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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