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There was no doubt in my mind but that this queer, ugly episode in which this woman butted like a clumsy animal at a gate she was not intelligent enough to open would dissolve and be replaced by some more pleasing composition in which we
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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― Books and You
― Books and You
“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
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Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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