We can be sure that we will hold on to the deathbed as part of the last balance sheet — and this part will taste bitter as cyanide — that we have wasted too much, much too much strength and time on getting angry and getting even with others in a helpless shadow theater, which only we, who have suffered importantly, knew anything about ~ Night Train to Lisbon Pascal Mercier
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