“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”
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Philip’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Philip’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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