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Babel

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

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“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: religion, sobriety

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“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, escape, reading

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“I suppose one finally learns, after much searching, that we really only belong to ourselves.”
― Colum McCann, Dancer

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“I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Nothing Was the Same

tags: bereavement, grief, love

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