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"Memory is what we thought we'd forgotten; it's what we have forgotten we've forgotten."
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
Evil is not something that can be explained. It just is.
"A detective is someone who looks for things that don't want to be found."
Words are the only thing that can build bridges across the abyss of misunderstanding.
Love is the only thing that can fill the emptiness of existence.
The body remembers what the mind tries to forget.
We have on this earth what makes life worth living.
The most beautiful thing in the world is truth.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
"A story is a living thing; it grows with each telling."
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
The soul is not a thing you can have. It is a way of being in the world.
Memory is a tricky thing. It's not always reliable, but it's all we have.
If memories had a smell, it would be the fragrance of camphor, sweet and secure, like clearly remembered happiness, sweet and melancholy, like forgotten sorrow.
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing—not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens.
There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.