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"Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it… They are, ideally, places where nothing happens, and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens into another world… engrossing books are landscapes into which readers vanish. (Flight)" — Jul 18, 2026 06:06AM
"Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it… They are, ideally, places where nothing happens, and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens into another world… engrossing books are landscapes into which readers vanish. (Flight)" — Jul 18, 2026 06:06AM
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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