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"“The pictures in my Iliad and my Famous Bible Tales reassured me, for I lived in a world of words. Duke had created this world. It was a live, whirling field of circuiting syllables crossing and re-crossing their hues and denotations until in the coiling, popping arcs of their grounded and ungrounded attractions these words became an expanding family more real than the dictionary said they referred to.”" — 13 hours, 29 min ago
"“The pictures in my Iliad and my Famous Bible Tales reassured me, for I lived in a world of words. Duke had created this world. It was a live, whirling field of circuiting syllables crossing and re-crossing their hues and denotations until in the coiling, popping arcs of their grounded and ungrounded attractions these words became an expanding family more real than the dictionary said they referred to.”" — 13 hours, 29 min ago
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
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“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
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“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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