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to a happy man, a prayer is a monotonous composition, void of meaning, until the day when suffering deciphers the sublime language through which the poor victim addresses God.
“At the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom,”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
“We want the sharers of our youth to remain forever young, to remind us of what we were, not of what we are.”
― The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
― The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
“You have to care at least a little to yell at someone, and he has to care about you at least a little to yell back.”
― Little Secrets
― Little Secrets
“That is how it will be—not pain itself, but the constant apprehension of pain; the constant apprehension of fault, the knowledge that you are going to be punished for something you couldn’t help and didn’t even know was wrong; and the discord in Hell will be constant, repeating”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“They accept that your decisions, your recommendations, are sound and dependable, almost always correct. But they don’t like not knowing how you arrive at them. That’s where it comes from, this backlash, this prejudice.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
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