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“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“If home can't be where you come from, then home is what you make of where you go.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries