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Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

— Marlene van Niekerk

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Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

A butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him.

After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given up all hope, the reward.

Marriage is holy and it's private.

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