“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: The Powerbook
“Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?”
— Yann Martel, book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi
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Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi 1963Related quotes
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