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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

 
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J.K. Rowling
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Oscar Wilde
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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George Eliot
“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.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J.K. Rowling
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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