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by Barbara Kingsolver

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Mar 13, 2026 04:28PM

“No one can be healed of death. All they can do is tame it. Death is a wild animal, sharp-fanged. I am just trying to build a cage to keep it locked in. It is there, beside me, drooling as it waits to devour me. The bars of the cage that protect me are made of paper.”
― Antoine Leiris, Vous n'aurez pas ma haine

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“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
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“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

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“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

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