Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence. — Salman Rushdie · Skopia

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Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Midnight's Children · 1981

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Rushdie, Salman. "Perforated Sheet." Midnight's Children. Jonathan Cape, 1981, bk. 1.

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