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The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

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“The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

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“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen

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“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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