Manuel Gubernale
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“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“A flaw of humanity,” said Parisa, shrugging. “The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness.”
― The Atlas Six
― The Atlas Six
“Much of history is unwritten. Remember this.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn't exist yet. I was making it, standing there, breathing, fixing the air around my body with stillness, trying to capture something—a thought, I guess—as though such a thing were possible, as though I believed in the delusion described in those paintings—that time could be contained, held captive.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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