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Gertrude Stein, The World is Round
Rose did not care about the moon, she liked stars. Once some one told her that the stars were round and she wished that they had not told her.”
Gertrude Stein, The World is Round
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Grimm Brothers’s fairy tales, Hans My Hedgehog
And she gave him the name Hans. “Hans my hedgehog,” she called him. Yes, the mother loved her baby all right. But not everybody did.”
Grimm Brothers’s fairy tales, Hans My Hedgehog
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The little prince
Here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The little prince
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Ruth Krauss, Open House for Butterflies
Everybody should be quiet near a little stream and listen”
Ruth Krauss, Open House for Butterflies
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Gertrude Stein, The World is Round
Do you suppose that Rose is a rose
If her favorite color is blue”Gertrude Stein, The World is Round
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Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter
It’s a pity that exciting things always stop happening when you’re not afraid of them anymore and would like to have a little fun.”
Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter
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Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen
Then little Gerda wept hot tears, which fell on his breast, and penetrated into his heart, and thawed the lump of ice, and washed away the little piece of glass which had stuck there.”
Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen
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Hans Christian Andersen, Little Thumbelina
So the leaf swam away with her farther and farther, till it brought her to other lands. A graceful little white butterfly constantly fluttered round her and at last alighted on the leaf.”
Hans Christian Andersen, Little Thumbelina
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The Brothers Grimm, Cinderella
So this is love. So this is what makes life divine. I’m all aglow”
The Brothers Grimm, Cinderella