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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.”
― Uprooted
― Uprooted
“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― As You Like It
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― As You Like It
“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.”
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― Uprooted
Ovid's Metamorphoses and Further Metamorphoses
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To read the Metamorphoses of Ovid, in any of the many translations (or the original), and at whatever speed it takes, with three goals in mind: 1. To ...more
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