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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I did not see sin”, says Julian of Norwich in her Revelations, “for I believe that it has no kind of substance, no share in being; nor can it be recognized except by the pain caused by it.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“He is lying on his left side, in the fetal position, as if he is trying to get out of this world by the way he came in.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

“Other children could have borne it, have borne it. My older brother did, somehow. I couldn't.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow