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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
“Space is space,life is life,everywhere is the same. But as for me, sustained by the toil of others, lacking civilized vices with which to fill my leisure, I pamper my melancholy and try to find in the vacuousness of the desert a special historical poignancy. Vain, idle, misguided! How fortunate that no one sees me!”
― Waiting for the Barbarians
― Waiting for the Barbarians
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