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“Be happy because no one is seeing what you do, no one is listening to you, no one really cares what may be achieved, but sometimes accidents happen and beauty is born.”
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“The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.”
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“[f]ortune is the lease capricious of deities, and arranges things on the just and rigid system that no one shall be very happy for very long.”
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“The art of raising children peacefully and pleasantly is the art of becoming a child again and growing up with them.”
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“Love is incapable of being concealed; a word, a look, nay, silence, speaks it.”
― Letters of Abelard and Heloise
― Letters of Abelard and Heloise
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When Saint Patrick this order established, He called us the Monks of the Screw Good rules he revealed to our Abbot To guide us in what we should do; B ...more
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