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For a book of over 1200 pages, how can it be possible to have already been moved to tears…

The passing of Krikor:

“His pain came back in waves.”

“And then the apothecary’s books rendered him a last unique service - the read, the unread, the skimmed-through, the beloved. He stuck his burning hands into the leaves. Their pages were as cool as water. And more than that. A thin icy peace came streaming into him from the actual life-blood of these books…then the burning died throb by throb.”

“Every man and every nation at one time or another becomes the ‘weak’. That’s why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent.”

I sense the influence of Proust. I was correct.

“One only knows a spot once one has experienced it in as many directions as possible. You have to have approached a place from all four cardinal points if you want to take it in, and what’s more, you also have to have left it from all these points. Otherwise it will quite unexpectedly cross your path three or four times before you are prepared to discover it. “

“Yet whatever is to come is there already, enfolded within itself, like bud, blossom, and fruit within the seed. What will happen to us has happened already…”