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Kazuo Ishiguro
“What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

T.S. Eliot
“I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.”
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

Ernest Hemingway
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Marina Abramović
“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.”
Marina Abramović

Charlotte Brontë
“I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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