"I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing."

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It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.

— J. M. Coetzee