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“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”
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“If you mail a rare stamp it becomes worthless. If you drink a rare bottle of wine, you're left with some recycling. But if you read a rare book it's still there, it's still valuable, and it's achieved the full measure of it's being. A book is to read, whether it's worth five pounds or five thousand pounds”
― First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen
― First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen
“We leafed through a series of the [1941 Soviet] Front newspaper. I came across the following phrase in a leading article: 'The much-battered enemy continued his cowardly advance.”
― A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
― A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
“It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.”
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“Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus, from Cavorite? Your trustiest companions since the cave, we apparitions guided mankind's tread, our planet, unseen counterpart to thine, as permanent, as ven'rable, as true. On dream's foundation matter's mudyards rest. Two sketching hands, each one the other draws: the fantasies thou've fashioned fashion thee.”
― The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
― The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
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