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For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.Diane Ackerman
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Europe enjoyed a heritage of fairy tales alive with talking animals--some almost real, other deliciously bogus-- to spark child's fantasies and gallop grownups to the cherished haunts of childhood. It pleased Antonina that her zoo offered on orient of fabled creatures, where book pages sprang alive and people could parley with ferocious animals.Diane Ackerman
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Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.Diane Ackerman
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As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.Diane Ackerman
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The faint pink coating the treetops promised rippling buds, a sure sign of spring hastening in, right on schedule, and the animal world getting ready for its fiesta of courting and mating, dueling and dancing, suckling and grubbing, costume-making and shedding-in short, the fuzzy, fizzy hoopla of life's ramshackle return.Diane Ackerman