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Libraries are not safe places, for their shelves are filled with books, but also with ideas regarding freedom, justice, truth, faith, and much more, ideas that some find intolerable. Book burners of all political persuasions know where to find the fuel when they feel the hour has come for action.
It’s the incessant need to know more and more and yet still more, to know everything, that is the fast track to destruction. Knowledge is a good thing, Jeffrey, but the arrogance that so often comes with knowledge is ultimately our undoing. Don’t be undone, Jeffrey. Do not be undone by pride in your knowledge.”
Yet the loss was still with her, not really a pain, more like an emptiness, as if something that ought to be inside of her were missing. She worried that more losses would leave other empty spaces in her, until she would be as hollow as a shell from which the egg had been drained through a pinhole.
No living thing on the earth was without its burdens. Daddy said our burdens made our spirits stronger and therefore were blessings.
beyond every darkness, dawn approached.
The only virtue is vice, and the acquisition of power justifies all things.
Unfortunately, this is what a lot of society, especially our leaders believe. What will it take to change this?
Evil people thrived on your fear; they fed on it; they could defeat you only if you made yourself a banquet of fear and were consumed by your enemies.
“Don’t wish so hard,” he advised. “Soft wishes are more likely to come true.”
If a man can’t understand a monster’s suffering, then he’s something of a monster himself.
The first morning color in the sky was a symbol of hope, a reminder that in spite of the evil that worked relentlessly from pole to pole, the world spent the night turning inexorably toward light.
Tragedy was not the end of hope, but the birthing ground of a new hope,
Love was not an act of reason, but a leap of faith, a belief that some mysterious meaning must lie behind existence and that two particular lives were fated to be one; love was an expression of trust in the truth of the heart’s yearning and the mind’s keen intuition.
