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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11729648-it-s-funny-no-matter-where-you-go-or-how-many</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 11:00:15 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Satoshi Yagisawa]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11729648-it-s-funny-no-matter-where-you-go-or-how-many]]>
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	    <![CDATA["It’s funny. No matter where you go, or how many books you read, you still know nothing, you haven’t seen anything. And that’s life." -- Satoshi Yagisawa]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/212821-very-few-beings-really-seek-knowledge-in-this-world-mortal</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:44:27 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Anne Rice]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/212821-very-few-beings-really-seek-knowledge-in-this-world-mortal]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world.  Mortal or immortal, few really ask.  On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on.  To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind.  The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner." -- Anne Rice]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/28008-i-m-gentleman-death-in-silk-and-lace-come-to-put</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:44:40 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Anne Rice]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/28008-i-m-gentleman-death-in-silk-and-lace-come-to-put]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles.  The canker in the heart of the rose." -- Anne Rice]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/189741-to-be-godless-is-probably-the-first-step-to-innocence</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:44:54 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Anne Rice]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/189741-to-be-godless-is-probably-the-first-step-to-innocence]]>
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	    <![CDATA["To be godless is probably the first step to innocence,&quot; he said, &quot;to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.&quot;
So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions.&quot;
An absence of need for illusions,&quot; he said. &quot;A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes." -- Anne Rice]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/42336-the-world-changes-we-do-not-therein-lies-the-irony</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:45:33 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Anne Rice]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/42336-the-world-changes-we-do-not-therein-lies-the-irony]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us." -- Anne Rice]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6784-evil-is-always-possible-and-goodness-is-eternally-difficult</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:45:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Anne Rice]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6784-evil-is-always-possible-and-goodness-is-eternally-difficult]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Evil is always possible.  And goodness is eternally difficult." -- Anne Rice]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/143253-people-who-cease-to-believe-in-god-or-goodness-altogether</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:46:09 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Anne Rice]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/143253-people-who-cease-to-believe-in-god-or-goodness-altogether]]>
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	    <![CDATA["People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." -- Anne Rice]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/357515-like-all-strong-people-she-suffered-always-a-measure-of</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:46:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Anne Rice]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/357515-like-all-strong-people-she-suffered-always-a-measure-of]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort." -- Anne Rice]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:47:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by qntm]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10864329-ideas-can-be-killed-she-says-stepping-into-the-airlock]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Ideas can be killed,&quot; she says, stepping into the airlock.

&quot;How?&quot;

&quot;With better ideas." -- qntm]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/154268-and-yet-i-adore-him-i-think-he-s-quite-crazy</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:51:59 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/154268-and-yet-i-adore-him-i-think-he-s-quite-crazy]]>
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	    <![CDATA["And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him." -- Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:52:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/366732-maybe-the-only-thing-that-hints-at-a-sense-of]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval." -- Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/616934-for-the-human-brain-can-become-the-best-torture-house</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:52:16 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/616934-for-the-human-brain-can-become-the-best-torture-house]]>
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	    <![CDATA["...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures." -- Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/958029-remembrance-like-rembrandt-is-dark-but-festive</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:52:50 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/958029-remembrance-like-rembrandt-is-dark-but-festive]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive." -- Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2978383-to-her-he-would-surrender-the-remnants-of-himself-at</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 15:28:16 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2978383-to-her-he-would-surrender-the-remnants-of-himself-at]]>
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	    <![CDATA["To her he would surrender the remnants of himself at the first trumpet blast of destiny." -- Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9277053-the-only-consciousness-that-persists-in-the-hereafter-is-the</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 15:28:36 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9277053-the-only-consciousness-that-persists-in-the-hereafter-is-the]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The only consciousness that persists in the hereafter is the consciousness of pain." -- Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7632455-as-she-began-losing-track-of-herself-she-thought-it</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 15:28:46 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7632455-as-she-began-losing-track-of-herself-she-thought-it]]>
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	    <![CDATA["As she began losing track of herself, she thought it proper to inform... them... that what death amounted to was only a more complete assortment of the infinite fractions of solitude." -- Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/34071-imagining-the-future-is-a-kind-of-nostalgia-you</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 02:58:39 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by John Green]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/34071-imagining-the-future-is-a-kind-of-nostalgia-you]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present." -- John Green]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/232933-time-was-passing-like-a-hand-waving-from-a-train</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 02:58:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by jonathan safran foer]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/232933-time-was-passing-like-a-hand-waving-from-a-train]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. 
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you." -- jonathan safran foer]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/441377-the-feelings-that-hurt-most-the-emotions-that-sting-most</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 03:22:08 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Fernando Pessoa]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/441377-the-feelings-that-hurt-most-the-emotions-that-sting-most]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are." -- Fernando Pessoa]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/125404-the-greek-word-for-return-is-nostos-algos-means-suffering</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 03:23:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Milan Kundera]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/125404-the-greek-word-for-return-is-nostos-algos-means-suffering]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The Greek word for &quot;return&quot; is nostos. Algos means &quot;suffering.&quot; So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return." -- Milan Kundera]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309633-toska---noun-t--sk---russian-word-roughly-translated-as</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 03:23:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309633-toska---noun-t--sk---russian-word-roughly-translated-as]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness.

&quot;No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom." -- Vladimir Nabokov]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18729-in-the-sunset-of-dissolution-everything-is-illuminated-by-the</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 03:23:31 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Milan Kundera]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18729-in-the-sunset-of-dissolution-everything-is-illuminated-by-the]]>
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	    <![CDATA["In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine." -- Milan Kundera]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/79003-remembrance-of-things-past-is-not-necessarily-the-remembrance-of</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 03:23:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Marcel Proust]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/79003-remembrance-of-things-past-is-not-necessarily-the-remembrance-of]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were." -- Marcel Proust]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/53166-the-best-fantasy-is-written-in-the-language-of-dreams</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 12:50:49 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by George R.R. Martin]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/53166-the-best-fantasy-is-written-in-the-language-of-dreams]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.

     Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

     We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.

     They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth." -- George R.R. Martin]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 12:51:16 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Italo Calvino]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/259954-sections-in-the-bookstore---books-you-haven-t-read--]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than       Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them" -- Italo Calvino]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3722-summer-night---even-the-stars-are-whispering-to-each-other</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 12:51:34 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Kobayashi Issa]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3722-summer-night---even-the-stars-are-whispering-to-each-other]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other." -- Kobayashi Issa]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/117526-no-man-ever-steps-in-the-same-river-twice-for</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:20:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Heraclitus]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/117526-no-man-ever-steps-in-the-same-river-twice-for]]>
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	    <![CDATA["No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -- Heraclitus]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10033-i-cannot-express-it-but-surely-you-and-everybody-have</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:20:24 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by Emily Brontë]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10033-i-cannot-express-it-but-surely-you-and-everybody-have]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being." -- Emily Brontë]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:19:32 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Reader add a quote by William Shakespeare]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/64051-the-fault-dear-brutus-is-not-in-our-stars-but]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." -- William Shakespeare]]>
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	    <![CDATA["When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun." -- William Shakespeare]]>
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