Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go strai…

Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shadow of the Wind, p.410, Penguin
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Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shadow of the Wind, p.410, Penguin

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