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“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
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“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
― When We Were Very Young
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
― When We Were Very Young
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