"A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound."
Richard Flanagan
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."
Anonymous
"You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society."
Eliot Spitzer
"They would repair the leaks in their eyes."
Tim O'Brien
"Poetry is never abandon it is only remixed."
James Schwartz
"Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen."
E. Lockhart
"There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
Booker T. Washington
"I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education."
Khaled Hosseini
"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."
C.S. Lewis
"Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves."
Bryant McGill
"Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal."
Caroline Blackwood
"Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought."
H. Rider Haggard
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion."
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