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    Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
    “So perfect and complete was my ignorance that it was impossible for me to know that I knew nothing.”
    ― Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus
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    Sebastian Barry
    “Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.”
    ― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
    tags: judgement, mercy
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
    tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life
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    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading
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    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    ― Katherine Anne Porter
    tags: past
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books
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    Mona Awad
    “I used to go to bookstores but I can’t go in them anymore because I buy too many books.”
    ― Mona Awad, Bunny
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: living
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    Isabel Allende
    “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: books
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    Isabel Allende
    “Write what should not be forgotten.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: forgotten, on-writing, writing, writing-advice
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    Isabel Allende
    “There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
    ― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
    tags: immortality, remembrance
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    Isak Dinesen
    “All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”
    ― Isak Dinesen
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