“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
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“I felt total bad about it, and empty. Granpa said he knew how I felt, for he was feeling the same way. But Granpa said everything you lost which you had loved give you that feeling. He said the only way round it was not to love anything, which was worse because you would feel empty all the time.”
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“But what are you? Buddhist? Japanese? Communist? What?’ ‘I’m nothing.’ ‘Can you be nothing?’ I never knew how to answer that question when I was asked it as a child, because the wording troubled me. Can you be nothing? I will be nothing.”
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― Confessions
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― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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