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"Chapter One: First Conversation Mostly on the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto. I listened to Leonard Bernstein conduct Krystian Zimerman while reading. Thank goodness for the internet!" — Aug 14, 2016 08:00PM
"Chapter One: First Conversation Mostly on the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto. I listened to Leonard Bernstein conduct Krystian Zimerman while reading. Thank goodness for the internet!" — Aug 14, 2016 08:00PM
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
― The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
“It was no great surprise that the world felt as if it were in chains since they actually trawled the ocean floor and tied us up in easy knots.”
― Twist
― Twist
“Stupid to think that our wine will never turn.”
― Twist
― Twist
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