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“If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow