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So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

Matilda (1996) dir. Danny Devito

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) dir. Peter Jackson

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#mood

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

— Edgar Allan Poe (b. 19 January 1809)

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Friedrich Nietzsche, for the new year

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, from Between the World and Me

Text ID: The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free.

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LITTLE WOMEN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig — What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?

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Little Women (1994) dir. Gillian Armstrong

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“Being capable, competent, and proficient are all different things. Being capable means practicing over and over to become able to perform a certain technique. Being competent means learning how to do it reliably from any position and under any circumstances. Being proficient means developing it to the point of always being able to deploy it at maximum effectiveness, better and faster than anybody else.” - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Koyoharu Gotouge

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"She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone." - Ann Brashares

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“Life is given to me only once, and never will be again—I don't want to sit waiting for universal happiness. I want to live myself; otherwise it's better not to live at all.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”, originally published c. 1866.

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Yes, I do put Dostoevsky on as an audiobook to fall asleep. Why do you ask?

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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

— Oscar Wilde

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“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” - Frank Herbert, Dune

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“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune