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Book cover for The White Album: Essays
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a ...more
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Haruki Murakami
“No matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves.”
Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

Sabahattin Ali
“But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. Or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. Because without that thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.”
Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat: A Novel by Sabahattin Ali

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

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