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he felt younger in the country, except when he saw himself in the mirror.
“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
― The Leopard
― The Leopard
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
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“But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
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