“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”
― The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
― The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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