“The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.”
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“The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
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“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
― All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
“I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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