“He's the god of beggars.
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.”
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“At least being nuts is being somewhere.”
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart.”
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“A bystander often sees more of the game than those that play..."
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!”
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“I know that ghosts and demons did exist, they did, if only you thought about them long enough and hard enough.”
- Perchance to Dream by Charles Beaumont
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