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“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.”
― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

“Guilt has no right to profit by the generosity of the guiltless.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Leavenworth Case

“first cut is the deepest”
― Esti Kinasih