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Paul Auster
“But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a
story cannot dwell on what might have been.”
Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

Thomas Pynchon
“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
Thomas Pynchon, V.

James Baldwin
“I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.”
James Baldwin

Arthur Schopenhauer
“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

Orhan Pamuk
“Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.”
Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City

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