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“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I cannot stand repetition: routine divides me from potential novelties within my reach.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back.”
― Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby

“She wasn’t crying because of the life she led: because, never having led any other, she’d accepted that with her that was just the way things were. But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling,”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star