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Jorge Luis Borges
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
Jorge Luis Borges

Donald Hall
“But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.”
Donald Hall, Essays After Eighty

Sylvia Plath
“If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Jorge Luis Borges
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
Jorge Luis Borges

Matt Haig
“Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.”
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
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