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There is no such thing yet as elective heart surgery. But imagine being able to stop time—the heart is a clock after all. Standing still is the next best thing.”
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Rivka Galchen
“Even the most normal person, if placed in a highly abnormal situation, can be mistakenly perceived as the source of abnormality of the person/circumstance aggregate”
Rivka Galchen, American Innovations

Pip Adam
“The only thing that looked at her was the dispassionate sky and it looked at everything with the same gaze.”
Pip Adam, The New Animals

Carsten Jensen
“Life was like one big marching army. Death ran alongside and picked off a soldier here and there, but that didn’t affect the army. Its march continued, and its size didn’t seem to diminish. On the contrary, it grew on into eternity, so that no one was alone in death. Someone else would always follow. That was what counted. Such was the chain of life: unbreakable. But”
Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

Juan Gabriel Vásquez
“That’s how he saw the contradictory and even unbearable situation of being enclosed in a language that didn’t think like he did but like his father: that’s where those desires to rebel against his own home came from.”
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Informers

Vladimir Bartol
“I had just vividly demonstrated to myself what a tremendous force faith is, and how easy it is to awaken. You just need to know a little bit more than the ones who are supposed to believe. Then it’s easy to work miracles.”
Vladimir Bartol, Alamut

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