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Circe by Madeline Miller

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But there was something in me that was sick of fear and awe, of gazing at the heavens and wondering what someone would allow me.

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“For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“No—but what does that really mean? I’m fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I’ve long ceased finding that original.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“It would be the saddest thing to me, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

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“I’m not happy to go, but one needn’t be happy to make another start.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.” Bloom”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

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