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“Whoever said that time blunts all pain did not quite understand that bluntness can wound as grievously as sharp points and edges;”
― The Lives of Others
― The Lives of Others

“A world of dew and within every dewdrop a world of struggle. ISSA”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Not all family bonds are equal. The lie so assiduously propagated by mothers 鈥 鈥楬ow can you ask who is my favourite? They are all my children, I love all of them equally. Are you partial to one finger of your hand over another?鈥 鈥 is disbelieved by everyone, yet it is quite astonishing what pervasive currency it has in the outward show of lives. Everyone”
― The Lives of Others
― The Lives of Others

“You won鈥檛 understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are鈥攏ot smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving鈥攁nd then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad鈥攐r good鈥攊t might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life

“Evans understood that if Nakamura chose, it would be indiscriminately and their number would include the sickest鈥攁nd perhaps most likely the sickest, because they were of least use to Nakamura鈥攁nd that all of them would die. If, on the other hand, he, Dorrigo, chose, he could pick the fittest, the ones he thought had the best chance of living. And most would die anyway. That was his choice: to refuse to help the agent of death, or to be his servant.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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