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“Life was an enormous rucksack so impossibly heavy that, even though it meant losing everything, it was infinitely easier to leave all baggage here on the roadside and walk into the blackness.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Man Who Loved Islands / L'uomo che amava le isole

“If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen society would be quite civilized.”
― Oscar wilde

“... and everyone knows you are not a real player until you secretly prefer losing.”
― Lawrence Osborne