“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
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“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― 2666
― 2666
“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― The Speed of Dark
― The Speed of Dark
“Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.”
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“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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