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A Tale of Love and Darkness

by Amos Oz

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“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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“At the bottom of everything there is the hallelujah.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

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“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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“Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

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“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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