Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Derek Walcott
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  2. Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

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