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“Memory is like glass. A person who has died is still visible, very close. But we can no longer contact each other. Death is mute; it excludes conversations, only allows silence.”
― Henning Mankell, The Man from Beijing

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“History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves for change is limited.”
― Henning Mankell, The Man from Beijing

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“Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.”
― Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains

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“Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.”
― Henning Mankell, The Man from Beijing

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“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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