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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality" says Iris Murdoch.
But given the state of the world, is it wise?”
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But given the state of the world, is it wise?”
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“One might put the point more cynically: jealousy is the price that has to be paid for there to be a certain sort of love from a certain sort of person, and one might not wish to be without that certain sort of love from that certain sort of person.”
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Anasoft litera is the most appreciated and prestigious Slovak literary award for original prose published in the previous year, emphasizing not only t ...more

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