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“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti

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“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

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“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

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“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness

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“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

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