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“Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.”
― Beatrice and Virgil
― Beatrice and Virgil
“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that's it, an always within never.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?”
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“If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“I believe that we have lost nostalgia in its anthropological sense. But we have also lost it when it comes to teaching—for example, nostalgia for the home. When we put our elders in nursing homes with a couple of mothballs in their pockets as if they were an overcoat, in a certain sense our nostalgic side has failed us, since being with our grandparents means coming face-to-face with our past.”
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