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Arielle’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2) by Ray Bradbury

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“So, in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do both, depending on the season and the need.

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Arielle’s Quotes

“Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: herman-hesse, inspiration, life, life-lessons, living, siddhartha, sin

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“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley

tags: education, inspirational, intelligence, knowledge, life, science, truth, wisdom

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“Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: creation, death, existence, frankenstein, god, life

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“We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

tags: disappointment, happiness, life-lessons, perception, perception-of-reality, perceptions, reality

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“So strange don't you think? To ascend to such a high position in your lifetime and then be totally forgotten? I mean, who even remembers Schuyler Colfax? Or John C. Breckinridge?'
'The history boooks do.”
― Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds

tags: forgotten, vice-presidents

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