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“I find it inordinately hard to speak about my other brother. He is a mere shadow in the background of my richest and most detailed recollections. It is one of those lives that hopelessly claim a belated something--compassion, understanding, no matter what--which the mere recognition of such a want can neither replace nor redeem.”
― Vladimir Nabokov Speak Memory

“...learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

“War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war,”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

“How little imagination and courage we show in our hatreds.”
― Amor Towles