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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made what I made.”
― Gertrude Stein

“... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere. ”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog