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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

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“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

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“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”
― John Berger

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