It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to ki…

Yann Martel
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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing. ✨ Yann Martel (2015). Life of Pi - CANCELED, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing. ✨ Yann Martel (2015). Life of Pi - CANCELED, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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