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Having spent last year bound in the nutshell of my own TBR shelf, I shall be doing my own Year Of Rest and Relaxation by simply having fun reading at heart-value, with no constraints. And what fun we shall have - Santa brought a lovely copy of The Il
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“did everything I could—I bought a vase, a lamp, a black-and-white poster of the skyline of New York—but their presence merely pointed up the anxiety of absence. The absence of what? I had no answer.”
― The Ministry of Pain: A Novel
― The Ministry of Pain: A Novel
“Yugoslavia was a terrible place. Everybody lied. They still lie of course, but now each lie is divided in five, one per country.”
― The Ministry of Pain
― The Ministry of Pain
“I like a rule which regulates emotion. I like an emotion which offsets the rule”
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“Laden Autumn here I stand. Worn of heart, and weak of hand: Nought but rest seems good to me, Speak the word that sets me free.”
― Early Poems of William Morris
― Early Poems of William Morris
“I am Pan, and the Earth is mine.”
― The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
― The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
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