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"Miranda is a Tolstoyan thinker! There’s that same ethos of acceptance, nonresistance, and (literally) doglike in-the-moment trust that Tolstoy espouses in his two major novels." — Dec 22, 2025 08:59AM
"Miranda is a Tolstoyan thinker! There’s that same ethos of acceptance, nonresistance, and (literally) doglike in-the-moment trust that Tolstoy espouses in his two major novels." — Dec 22, 2025 08:59AM
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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