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“Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.”
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“Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”
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“I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.”
― The Reader
― The Reader
“Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. ”
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“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.”
― The Faraway Nearby
― The Faraway Nearby
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