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Monthly Archives: February 2003
Andre Gide, If It Die
“… for I did not know then how much stronger innate qualities are than acquired ones, and that in spite of every kind of starching, dressing, pressing and folding, the natural stuff persists and remains unchanged - stiff or limp, as it was originally woven.”
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Toni Morrison, Paradise
“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.”
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Toni Morrison, Paradise
“They had promised to take care of her always but did not tell her that always was not all ways nor forever.”
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Toni Morrison, Paradise
“… teaching was letting children talk as if they had something important to say that the world had not heard and dealt with already.”
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Andre Gide, If It Die
“To enjoy a thing is to make it your own.”
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Andre Gide, If It Die
“It convinced me too that there are many things that seem impossible only as long as one does not attempt them.”
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