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We toasted Bacchus and the Muses, and drank a wine rich as unicorn’s blood.
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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