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“This is life seen by life. I may not have meaning but it is the same lack of meaning that the pulsing vein has.”
― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

“I think the power of books is that - that they teach us to care about others. It's a power that gives people courage and also supports them in turn. [. . .] Empathy - that's the power of books.”
― Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

“Mark knows that beyond the heaven of the perfect translation is the heaven of a single language, but, as has been the case for his entire life, he can't find the words.”
― Davey Davis, Casanova 20: Or, Hot World

“I'd been mistaken when I'd thought of them as victims. They'd stayed behind precisely to avoid such a fate. When I think of those ten days in the life of that city, I think of the moment when a man who'd been lynched, almost killed, found the strength to open his eyes. The moment when, spitting out fragments of teeth along with a mouthful of blood, he held his failing eyes open with his fingers so he could look his attacker straight in the face. The moment when he appeared to remember that he has a face and a voice, to recollect his own dignity, which seemed the memory of a previous life.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts