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“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.”
― The Female Man
But the frogs die in earnest.”
― The Female Man
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Sermons of Meister Eckhart
― Sermons of Meister Eckhart
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Opal’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Children's, Christian, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Paranormal, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Spirituality, Young-adult, psychedelia, new-age, cyberpunk, aliens, fairy-tales, epic-fantasy, science-fiction-fantasy, dark-fantasy, occult, mysticism, theology, paganism, esoterica, spiritualism, eastern-philosophy, metaphysics, theory, wizards, dragons, unicorns, weird-fiction, new-weird, supernatural, humor, fairies, angels, mermaids, folklore, witches, paranormal-romance, mythology, greek-mythology, arthurian, lovecraftian, cthulhu-mythos, bizarro-fiction, sequential-art, graphic-literature, computer-science, programming, programming-languages, astronomy, chemistry, geology, physics, high-fantasy, urban-fantasy, magic, steampunk, utopia, robots, dystopia, cults, feminism, gender, social-movements, social-justice, and sexuality
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