“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― The Monster of Florence
― The Monster of Florence
“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]”
― The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]”
― The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
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