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“That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“… the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”

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“She walks like a ballerina in dance slippers, her feet as articulate as hands, a little vessel of grace moving out into the fog.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“The way her fingers flutter through the space around her. Each a thing he hopes never to forget.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“What the war did to dreamers.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“To really touch something, she is learning—the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Etymology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard’s workshop—is to love it.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“He sweeps her hair back from her ears; he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement. He says he will never leave her, not in a million years.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“I am only alive because I have not yet died.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world - what pretensions humans have!”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe . . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.”

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