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“People are born from the womb of the world with different sensitivities, and the world needs every single one of you to experience it fully, so that it might be fully experienced.”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

“If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to stay. That the impulse to live was in him stronger than he might have imagined, undiminished by his bleak circumstances.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

“Nothing bad has ever happened to the well-adjusted, so they assume the world will always be ready to receive them, in all their positivity and grace.”
― Sophie McCreesh, Once More, with Feeling

“It was easy for me to understand this language of blood, pain, and creation that begins with physical substance itself when one is a woman.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada