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“Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world, the uncertainty. Of course, this is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or we think we do. It's a song we've heard.”

“There comes a moment in every life when we realise there is no land beyond the ice. There is just more ice. And then the world we know continues again.
You sometimes have to look at what you know is there and discover the things right in front of you. The people you love.”

“Love is where you find the meaning. Those seven years I was with her contained more than anything else. Do you understand? You can take all the years before and since and weigh them next to those, and they wouldn't stand a chance.”

“There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous”

“Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.”

“To talk about memories is to live them a little.”

"’Anxiety’, Kierkegaard wrote, in the middle of the nineteenth century, 'is the dizziness of freedom’.”

“I said nothing. I was angry, yes, but as was so often the case with anger, it was really just fear projecting outwards.”

“It is strange how close the past is, even when you imagine it to be so far away. Strange how it can just jump out of a sentence and hit you. Strange how every object or word can house a ghost.”

“But as you get older, Anton, you realise that you never get away with things. The human mind has its own... prisons. You don't have a choice over everything in life.”