“All the difference in the world are as nothing compared to this: the difference between being you and being me. It makes the chasms between gods and men, between men and women, between dead and alive, seem almost trivial.You are you. She is someone else. Between lie the stars.”
Source: The Lonely Dead (2004), Ch. 14
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Michael Marshall Smith 26
British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer 1965Related quotes
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