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If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren__ reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don__ have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there__ nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.

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Adriana Trigiani

The Shoemaker's Wife

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And I would have answered:"The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is to find it a place among the smooth planks, the more people agree that it should be thrown on the fire, the more useless it is, the more unsuitable for anything except letting one's imagination run riot, the more I covet it, the more I yearn to weigh it in my hand, the more I long to let my whittling knife be guided by its knots and veins...Yes, bring that piece to me...

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Sjón

From the Mouth of the Whale

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know__nd yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know__ven if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction__han to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.