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“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“I am trying to understand what it means to own a thing, especially a wild and living being. To have exclusive rights to its fate? To dispose of it at will? To deny others it’s use? Ownership seems a uniquely human behavior, a social contract validating the desire for purposeless possession and control.”
― Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
― Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“They meet someone who makes them laugh, and they laugh together, and the years melt away.”
― Me Without You
― Me Without You
“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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