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We celebrate the tree that stretches to the sky, but it is the ground we should ultimately thank.
“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
― The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
― The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
“Here dwell together still two men of note
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very near they seem, yet how remote
That age before the world went all awry.
But still the game’s afoot for those with ears
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:
England is England yet, for all our fears–
Only those things the heart believes are true.
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five.”
―
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very near they seem, yet how remote
That age before the world went all awry.
But still the game’s afoot for those with ears
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:
England is England yet, for all our fears–
Only those things the heart believes are true.
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five.”
―
“For whatsoever from one place doth fall,
Is with the tide unto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― The Faerie Queene
Is with the tide unto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― The Faerie Queene
“That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
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