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Nobody can find me here, he thought. And then he thought, what if nobody can find me here?
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
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“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
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“Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
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And say my glory was I had such friends.”
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
Melanie’s 2025 Year in Books
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840 friends
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415 friends
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