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“If man's capacity for the fantastic took up as much of his imagination as his capacity for cruelty, the worlds, seen and unseen, might be very different.”
― Alif the Unseen
― Alif the Unseen
“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”
― The Lazarus Project
― The Lazarus Project
“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ”
― The Lazarus Project
― The Lazarus Project
“She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it.
Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever. ”
― The Cellist of Sarajevo
Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever. ”
― The Cellist of Sarajevo
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