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“One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else.”
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
“I believe that love is the indispensable fuel that allows us to go on living. Someday that love may end. Or it may never amount to anything. But even if love fades away, even if it’s unrequited, you can still hold on to the memory of having loved someone, of having fallen in love with someone. And that’s a valuable source of warmth.”
― First Person Singular: Stories
― First Person Singular: Stories
“We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free.”
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
― In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
“Do ghosts exist? We do not know. Perhaps we can never really know. But yes, ghost stories do exist.”
― Ghost Stories of Shimla Hills
― Ghost Stories of Shimla Hills
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