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“Soft and persistent rain penetrates the earth better than the storm.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

“Didn't you go back?"
"I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“...ever farther from human beings, driving him on ever more insistently toward the magnetic pole of the greatest possible solitude.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books — where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas.”
― Langston Hughes