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Book cover for When Breath Becomes Air
There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.
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Kate Greenaway
“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
Kate Greenaway

Leo Tolstoy
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

Fredrik Backman
“An unreasonable amount of paperwork is required these days just to be a human being.”
Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

Jean Webster
“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about”
Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

Ted Chiang
“The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do. At”
Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

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