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by Edward Carey
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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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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
Read for Bryce
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— last activity May 26, 2019 01:55PM
December 27th we all lost a friend. Bryce was taken from us too soon. An avid reader, he loved to recommend books to people so what a fitting way to h ...more
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