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The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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Karina said: " I have finished this book even if I have problems with the characters. I always read the last few pages & if I enjoyed that I buy the book. A friend suggested this book. I didn't read the series. Perhaps if I started with #1 that might have fleshed o ...more "

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“We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.”
― Albert Camus

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“[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queuejumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

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“It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning”
― Albert Camus

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