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We had survived the prison, the plain and the loss of all hope, but the women had discovered that survival is no more than putting off the moment of death.
“Imagination is a child’s only weapon.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“What distinguishes grace from everything else? Grace is unearned. If you’ve moved through the world in such a way as to feel you’ve earned cosmic compensation, then what you’ve earned is something more like justice, like propriety. Not grace. Propriety is correct. Justice is just. There’s an inescapable transactional quality: perform x good, receive y reward. Grace doesn’t work that way. It begins with the reward. Goodness never enters the equation.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“The leaves crisping at their edges. Here is a season Hamnet has not known or touched. Here is a world moving on without him.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
“...what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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