

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
― Demian
― Demian

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
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“Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure

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