Music Quote by Sofia Samatar

““There is enough cruelty in the world," she told me softly, "to justify all the music ever made.””

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“It was “a shape to make men weep,” wrote Firdred of Bain when he first saw it: “exactly the shape of a desecrated sea.”

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“Long is the journey homeward, Weary and worn are we. Oh, if I fall behind, my love, Will you look back for?”

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“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river…

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“People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it's deadness. Lonely people…

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“The word for 'book' in all the known languages of the earth is vallon, 'chamber of words'...”

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“The night sky was distended in my dreams, sinking to earth with the weight of destructive glory behind it. In one of those dreams…

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“The truth has its own virtue, which is separate from its content.”

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