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| 04cc68b | Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith. | solitude library literature reading books bookish irvine-welsh skagboys zenith heroine reading-books read introversion introvert reader | Irvine Welsh | |
| 4f07c40 | Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide. | suicide wrong compassion love bookish gentleman foreboding caring insight | George Eliot |