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“Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here.”
― The Collected Regrets of Clover
― The Collected Regrets of Clover
“It frustrated me that society. was so determined to quantify grief, as if time could erase the potency of love.”
― The Collected Regrets of Clover
― The Collected Regrets of Clover
“Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic.”
― The Collected Regrets of Clover
― The Collected Regrets of Clover
“Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.”
― Metamorphosis
― Metamorphosis
“The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.”
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