“And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life—not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient
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“They vacillated more slowly than sane folk, but clung with far more than sane fervour to each vacillation.”
― The King of Elfland's Daughter
― The King of Elfland's Daughter
“And the folk of Erl gazed much at the trolls and the trolls at the folk of Erl, and there was great merriment; for, as often happens with minds of unequal weight, each laughed at the other.”
― The King of Elfland's Daughter
― The King of Elfland's Daughter
“Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.”
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“The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.”
― Twelve Years a Slave
― Twelve Years a Slave
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