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“And as he looked, turning the leaf over and back, Aethon saw that the cities on both sides of the page, the dark ones and the bright ones, were one and the same, that there is no peace without war, no life without death, and he was afraid.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“The world as it is is enough.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“You can cling to this world for a thousand years and still be plucked out of it in a breath.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“People can delight in the saddest of sob-stuff, as long as they find it beautiful.”
― Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories