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The Ruins

by Scott Smith

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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

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“When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

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“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
― Franz Kafka

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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it.”
― Seamus Heaney, Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture

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