"A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit."

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Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

John Milton

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“Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?”
“I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.145, Delacorte Press
“A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.”

Source : 1547 Letter to Benedetto Varchi.
“We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.”
“If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas and feelings back to you. Remember, thoughts are like very powerful magnets!”
“Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!”
“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”
“I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they had had to treat a fox that had been brought in with a shooting injury. The answer from a vet who had worked there for many years was, Not once. When I asked him why, he said,You can take it from me that when the fox is shot in the countryside by somebody trained, it is dead.”

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