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“That reservoir of goodness beyond and of another kind that we are able to do for each other in the ordinary cause of things.”
― Marilynne Robinson

“A man can be known by his library better than by his house or dress.”
― Bruce Alexander, Blind Justice

“Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is...that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Who complains of want? of wounds? of cares? of great men's oppressions? of captivity? whilst he sleepeth? Beggars in their beds take as much pleasure kings: can we therefore surfeit on this delicate Ambrosia? Can we drink too much of that whereof to taste too little tumbles us into a churchyard, and to use it but indifferently throws us into Bedlam? No, no, look upon Endymion, the moon's minion, who slept three score and fifteen years, and was not a hair the worse for it.”
― Thomas Dekker

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
― Hafiz

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham