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I was mortal, but am fiend. I was merciless, but am pitiful. Thou dost feel that I shudder. My teeth chatter as I speak, yet it is not with the chilliness of the night - of the night without end. But the hideousness is insufferable. How canst thou tranquilly sleep?
from “The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe

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how I spend my rainy day. The storm makes it cool enough and bug-free enough to sit outside and the thunder , lightning and the ‘woosh’ of cars passing through puddles are music to my ears

how I spend my rainy day. The storm makes it cool enough and bug-free enough to sit outside and the thunder , lightning and the ‘woosh’ of cars passing through puddles are music to my ears

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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
Carl Sagan (via even-after-all-this-time)

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