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Lots of people want to run away, but the ones who really do rarely announce it beforehand: they just go.
“So many books, so little time.”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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