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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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“Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....”
― Collected Poems
And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....”
― Collected Poems
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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