“Wearing a mask can thus be a strange thing: sometimes, more often than we tend to believe, there is more truth in the mask that in what we assume to be our "real self.”
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“In short, the truly courageous stance is to admit that the light at the end of the tunnel is most probably the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite direction.”
― Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours
― Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours
“It’s hard to hold onto any tragedies that aren’t your own for very long.”
― The Fisherman
― The Fisherman
“A bit of laughter can be the bridge that lets you cross out of a bad time, believe you me.”
― The Fisherman
― The Fisherman
“All loss is not created equal, you see. Loss is—it’s like a ladder you don’t know you’re standing at the top of and that reaches down, way down past the loss of your job, your possessions, your home; past the loss of your parents, your spouse, your children; down to the loss of your very life”
― The Fisherman
― The Fisherman
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