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“So I waited. Then I got used to waiting. Eventually, waiting was more real than what we had.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“In all the edifices of thought, I have found no category on which to rest my head. Whereas Chaos—there's a pillow!”
― Emil Cioran

“The blessing of forgetfulness: that was the first essential. If everything one did, or which one's fathers had done, was an endless sequence of Doings doomed to break forth bloodily, then the past must be obliterated and a new start made. Man must be ready to say: Yes, since Cain there has been injustice, but we can only set the misery right if we accept a status quo. Lands have been robbed, men slain, nations humiliated. Let us now start fresh without remembrance, rather than live forward and backward at the same time. We cannot build the future by avenging the past. Let us sit down as brothers, and accept the Peace of God.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“What I mean is, right from that first time, there was
something in Tommy's manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed to
say: “Yes, we're doing this now and I'm glad we're doing it now. But what a
pity we left it so late.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go