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Beautiful objects therefore have a really important function. They invite us to evolve in their direction, to become as they are. Beauty can educate our souls. It follows that ugliness is a serious matter too, for it parades dangerous and
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“Now the fox sat upright. His lovely pointed snout sank down to his bloodied breast, his eyes rose up and stared at the dog right into his face . In a quite different voice, in control of himself, sad and bitter, he snarled, “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself ...? You traitor!” “No! No! No!” the dog yelled. The fox, however went on. “You turncoat ... you defector!” His lacerated body became stiff with hatred and contempt. “You’re just His henchman,” he hissed. “You miserable ... you seek us out where He couldn’t find us ... you persecute us in places that He can’t get to ... you turn us in ..., and all of us are your relatives ... you turn me in, and you and I are nearly brothers ... and you just stand there ...are you not ashamed of yourself?”
― Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten: A Tale of Innocence, Growth, and the Natural World
― Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten: A Tale of Innocence, Growth, and the Natural World
“Yes, life was hard and full of danger. Let it bring whatever it wants, he would learn somehow to bear all of it.”
― Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten: A Tale of Innocence, Growth, and the Natural World
― Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten: A Tale of Innocence, Growth, and the Natural World
“Since time immemorial, humankind’s greatest natural predator has been the clown.”
― Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
― Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
“Rich people always have enemies. Usually, that’s how they became rich.”
― A Master of Djinn
― A Master of Djinn
“I've always been proud of how much my daughter cared about the world. After school she’d study the news, comb the internet for disasters, wars and hate and injustice, write it all down in these color-coded journals. Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like anybody else noticed or cared that we kept making the same mistakes, that hate in a neighborhood or injustice in a state ran like poison through veins, until another ice shelf collapsed or another animal went extinct. Everything is connected, she’d say. And I’d tell her, You’re only one person and you only have one life.”
― How High We Go in the Dark
― How High We Go in the Dark
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