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Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the quivering air, like gelatine, the sounds trace their bubble paths. Can you imagine that? ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. ↗

— Plotinus

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Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it. ↗

— Stephanie Connolly

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Within chaos lies opportunity. ↗

— P.C Cast and Kristin Cast

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Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been. ↗