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We all give up great expectations along the way.

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Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to ...more

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Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the ...more

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I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of th...more