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“His sadness seemed complete. It had left him nothing, no proper enjoyment, no Saturday mornings. Sadness wore him like a tailored suit.”

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Book:Virgil Wander
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Virgil Wander

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Leif Enger
Leif Enger

Leif Enger is an American author born in 1961. His works are known for their profound character development and rich emotional expression. Enger's debut novel, 'The Book of Dreams,' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, propelling him to fame. more

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“The marvelous, I say again, is all around, at every time and in every age. It is, or should be, life itself, as long as that life is not made deliberately sordid as this society does so cleverly with its schools, religion, law courts, war occupations and liberations, concentration camps and horrible material and mental poverty. And yet, I remember, it was in Rennes prison where they had me locked up in May 1940, because I had committed the crime of thinking such a society was my enemy, unless it was simply because it had forced me like so many others to defend it twice in my life when I felt nothing in common with it.”

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