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“Life is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the other was simply bound to fail.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“A real diamond is never perfect.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See