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“After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.”

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Sebastian Barry livre The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.”

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Source: The Secret Scripture

“I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.”

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Source: The Secret Scripture

“It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.”

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Source: The Secret Scripture

“A man’s memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can’t do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.”

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Source: Days Without End: A Novel

“Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.”

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Sebastian Barry livre The Secret Scripture

The Secret Scripture