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“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
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“If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it’s a poem.”
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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