"In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life."

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Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.44, Beacon Press

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“Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.”

Source : Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.107, Simon and Schuster
“There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.”

Source : Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.
“One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.”
“A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.”
“I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..”
“And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?”
“She turned to the sunlight Â Â Â Â And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: Â Â Â Â "Winter is dead.”
“The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no 'distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any 'sensible difference to anybody.”

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