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The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1) by Matt Haig
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We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.
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“We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While
we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
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