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“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a pair of clean hands is seldom among them.”
― Robert Harris, Imperium : L'ascension au pouvoir

“True love makes it through any ordeal. I yearn to be in a relationship that can shake off the frosty wind and the couple still stands hand in hand. I yearn for a love that, because of devoted vigilance, can withstand time’s ceaseless erosion and come out alive.”
― Miaojin Qiu, [Last Words from Montmartre (New York Review Books Classics)] [By: Miaojin, Qiu] [June, 2014]

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner: A Novel

“The vision soothed him, calmed his fears and his doubts, made him fatalistic towards the inscrutable purpose of the universe. It all seemed to matter so little - the pathetic quest for love, or the return to solitude.”
― John Le Carré