"But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

“We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.”
“The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.”
“Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.”
“The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.”
“A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.”
“As my guests leave even my most simple parties, I consistently hear the same thing: 'That was the best time I ever had,' and it's always me saying it. But I do know in my heart they all feel the same way, probably.”
“I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.”

Source : "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.
“Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.”

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