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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.Colum McCann
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Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.Colum McCann
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...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.ÂColum McCann
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Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.Colum McCann
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There are no days more full than those we go back to.Colum McCann