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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

“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

“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]

Frank Herbert
“One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste.”
Frank Herbert, Dune

“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

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