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“The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.”

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This thought-provoking book explores the concept of resurrection and its implications on human existence, weaving a complex narrative that challenges readers' perceptions of life and the afterlife. more

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Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is a Serbian-American writer known for his unique literary style and profound humanistic concerns. His works focus on themes of immigration, identity, and individual experience, and have won him a wide readership. more

“Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist and the dew and the birdsong as elements not of a place or a time but of a spirit? And did you not envy the boy his spirit? For you know there can be no power over him who freely gives what another would take. Such a one has the capacity to love. Freely, naively, to say I do.”

Knows World Giving Looks Might Spirit Boys Morning Imagine Elements Bird Capacity Envy Look Up Mist Dew Capacity To Love Birdsong

Book:At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel

Source: At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel

“The people shall further be graded according to wealth, and—humorous touch this—the more obviously a man labor, the more stinting shall be his reward; the more he work in the out-of-doors, the thinner his clothing shall be; the more his labor filthy him, the less water shall he have to wash”

People Men Water Wealth Doors Humorous Labor Rewards Clothings Filthy

Book:At Swim, Two Boys

Source: At Swim, Two Boys

“I love the lambs, not the sheep.”

Sheep Lambs

Author:Roger Peyrefitte

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