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W. Somerset Maugham
“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

Gabriel García Márquez
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
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Yuval Noah Harari
“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

W. Somerset Maugham
“It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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