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Lenny Rooy | 10 comments Could you please remove the following quotes from https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes... as they are not in any way a quote from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' books:

“She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.”

“Finding meaning, like losing meaning, involves pleasure as well as pain. But then losing meaning, like finding it, does too, as the best nonsense reminds us.”

“the English novel is childish because what is desired is not maturity and wisdom but a return to the safety and innocence of childhood—”

“this was a book about working out who you were. About identity, constant and threatened.”

“For nonsense, as Chesterton liked to tell us, is a way of looking at existence that is akin to religious humility and wonder.”

“It is her solidity that is magical. The wonders are not wild or strange but odd and curious.”

“Franco Moretti in The Way of the World, his brilliant discussion of the European bildungsroman, or novel of growing-up, distinguishes the British novel from the continental European one for its greater emphasis on the child as hero or heroine. This goes, he says, with a plot that turns on the dangers posed by fairy-tale villains and schemers, trying to dispossess the child of its rightful place and inheritance—as opposed to the novel of growing-up, becoming adult, making moral errors (Stendhal, Goethe, and in Britain, Middlemarch, which Virginia Woolf called the only novel written for grown-ups).”


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