“Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“You read the face of the sky and of the earth, but you have not recognized the one who is before you, and you do not know how to read this moment.”
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Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)
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