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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Top 10 Best Quotes
“But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
“Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one—that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes.”
“Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.”
“we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
“The things that look fixed in the world, child—mountains, wealth, empires—their permanence is only an illusion. We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives. From the perspective of God, cities like this come and go like anthills.”
“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.”
“strange how suffering can look beautiful if you get far enough away”
“Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?”
“what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up”
“The world as it is is enough.”
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