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“I like books where all the mysteries and the anguish pass through a precise and cold mind, without shadows, like the mind of a chessplayer.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.”
― Yukio Mishima

“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

“...'I, for example, have several dear friends... Now am I in love with all of these people?'
I continued to press my point: 'Yes,' I said. 'You are a little in love with all those people you care for.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat