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“think most people who want to be happy try to add things to their lives. But really what maybe they should be doing is taking something away.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“One thing is certain, I have never written to express myself, as they say, but rather to get away from myself.”
― Jon Fosse, A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture

“Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.”
― Ali Ibn Abi Talib , Nahjul Balaaghah

“Because a funny thing about rule-loving people is that to them it seems more important to impose punishment than it is to actually solve problems, and a funny thing about rule-breaking people is that they seem to find breaking rules a lot easier to do if someone else has broken them first.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No