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Raphael
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“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves.”
― To the Lighthouse
and changing leaves.”
― To the Lighthouse
“It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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