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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
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“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
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“Don’t love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.”
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“Next to the lightest heart, the heaviest is apt to be most playful.”
― The House of the Seven Gables
― The House of the Seven Gables
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