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We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning
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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
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