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“Who am I, that you should love me?"
"You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth.
"Do you believe me?" he asked.
"Yes," she answered.
"Do you love me?"
"Yes."
"I love you."
And she believed him.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

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“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself...I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still I who see.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

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“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
― Robert Frost

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“In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

tags: books, interpretation, reading, self, value

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“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: eternity, future, past, present

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