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“Dr. Holmes came again. Large, fresh coloured, handsome, flicking his boots, looking in the glass, he brushed it all aside-headaches, sleeplessness, fears, dreams-nerve symptoms and nothing more, he said.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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“The night belonged to gaslight, to the shadows of narrow side streets shattered by the flash of gunshots and the blue trace of burned gunpowder. Those were years when one grew up fast, and with childhood slipping out of their hands, many children already had the look of old men.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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“His legacy to me was his considerable repertoire of smoke and mirrors. And he asked me to let him go, because he had been born to be forgotten.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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“The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn't that they'll remember, it's that you'll remember.”
― Sarah Manguso

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“I opened my eyes. Thick columns of stone rose in the shadows toward a naked vault. Needles of dusty light fell diagonally, revealing endless rows of ramshackle beds. Small drops of water fell from the heights like black tears, exploding with an echo as they touched the ground. The darkness smelled of mildew and damp.

'Welcome to Purgatory.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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