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“Tolstoy expressed his exasperation at people who didn’t read deeply and regularly. “I cannot understand,” he said, “how some people can live without communicating with the wisest people who ever lived on earth.”
― Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key

“The Bishop laid down his pen and lit his two candles with a splinter from the fire, then stood dusting his fingers by the deep- set window, looking out at the pale blue darkening sky. The evening-star hung above the amber afterglow, so soft, so brilliant that she seemed to bathe in her own silver light.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop: The Original Classic Edition by Willa Cather - Unabridged and Annotated For Modern Readers and Book Clubs