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“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life