"Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. Thatâ€™s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness."

-- Antonio Lobo Antunes

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“That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (2013). “The Ravishing of Lol Stein”, p.54, Pantheon
“The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.”
“Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.”
“You can't keep putting the same stuff on all these channels, or it's going to get annoying. We need to aim for 'distinctive ubiquity,â€™ so we need to be everywhere but we need to continue to surprise and delight our customers in a relevant and consistent way wherever they are.”
“The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it”

Source : Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage
“There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”
“The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.”
“Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.”

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