Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.
Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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