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“When I talk about surviving, I don’t mean pushing a needle up your veins and waiting for the next time. That’s dying. Surviving is what you choose to do. Takes some courage. Takes some sense.”
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― Twelfth Night
― Twelfth Night
“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.”
― The Great Wall of China and other Stories
― The Great Wall of China and other Stories
“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.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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