Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. (Boris Pasternak)

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Boris Pasternak

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