"So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out."

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Still, there's that faint glimmer of hope we feel when we sense, in other people, the same kind of attentiveness to life that we take comfort in. Why else would anyone watch Haneke films or read Sebald? The material is grim, but it's redeemed by the quality of the attention.

— Teju Cole