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home isn’t where you land; home is where you launch. You can’t pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.
“So many books, so little time.”
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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