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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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Jelena ✨ ’s Quotes

“If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.”
― Paul Auster

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“Other people are all witnesses. If no other people exists, shame would never be born in the world.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

tags: shame

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“If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence.”
― Han Kang, Greek Lessons

tags: beauty, language, nature, rain, snow, sound

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“I realized that his death severed the one and only thread that still connected me with the bright world of daylight. It was because of the lost daylight, the lost brightness, the lost summer, that I was crying.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion

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“It is early April, and I desire another man so unmistakably that for the rest of the day he is with me in my prayers, in which I shamelessly ask god to give him to me.”
― Pajtim Statovci, Bolla

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