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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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‘Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.’

Don't we always keep on looking for happiness only to realise that we missed it while we were looking for it.

“But sometimes things are said and they’re not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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“On going to funerals: "You don't have to say anything. By showing up you are reassuring them that they are not alone. Just being there is enough.”
― Kunal Nayyar, Yes, My Accent Is Real: and Some Other Things I Haven't Told You

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“Darky was always looking for the good thing, no matter how small, and consequently he often found it.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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“It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering; and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that one’s interest was not the chief consideration in the other’s thoughts.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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