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“...that was the funny thing about books - the more you tried to ban them, the more brightly they burned in the hearts and minds that found them anyway.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Collector of Burned Books

tags: books

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“When society deliberately cultivated ignorance, they paid the price.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Collector of Burned Books

tags: educate-yourself

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“Refuse to read anything that might be distasteful, and one soon lacked the ability to understand it.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Collector of Burned Books

tags: ignorance

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“Even when you see it coming, when it announces itself well in advance, death is like a sudden explosion, leaving you shell-shocked and dazed in its aftermath.”
― Matthew Norman, All Together Now

tags: grief-and-loss

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“Each little street here has a story tucked into it, just waiting to be told. The cobblestones echo with the footsteps of generations past. ...It's like a dream from which I never wake up and I can't imagine living anywhere else.”
― Patricia Sands, The French Effect

tags: paris

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