“The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”
― Sula
― Sula
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
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“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
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“To laugh is to live profoundly.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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