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“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.”
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
“We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles.”
― Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947
― Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947
“By writing books, a man turns into a universe.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.”
― The Story of an African Farm
― The Story of an African Farm
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