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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Buddha
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Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C.S. Lewis
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
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Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
Neil Gaiman
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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I’d majored in English because I loved to read, not because I had any idea of what I wanted to do with my life.
Nicole Krauss, Great House (via thequeen0flimbs)
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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