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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart… — John Muir
Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough… — Harper Lee
Bruno: Why do you wear pajamas all day? Shmuel: The soldiers. They took all our clothes away. Bruno: My dad's a soldier, but not the… — John Boyne
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been… — C.S. Lewis
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not… — Banana Yoshimoto
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed… — James Branch Cabell
Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented… — Douglas Adams
The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you donâ€™t mind. It is futile to… — Scott Adams
In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement.… — Leo Tolstoy
Ranger is an unusual name," she managed. "Is it a nickname?" It's a street name," Ranger said. "I was a Ranger in the army." I… — Janet Evanovich
It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than… — Elizabeth Gilbert
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look… — Lewis Carroll
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of… — Jane Austen
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the… — Marcel Proust
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an… — Orhan Pamuk
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to… — Jonathan Lethem
I have read true piety defined as: loving oneâ€™s destiny unconditionally â€“ and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that… — Isak Dinesen
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a… — Ezra Pound

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