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“I am trying to find the courage to be tender in my life. I know violence is weakness. Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
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“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
― The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
― The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
“Shut your eyes and see.”
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“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
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“Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.”
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