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This points to the tension between storytelling and reality, especially when fiction refuses to behave as neatly as life often does. It can be read as a complaint about overly optimistic books, but also as an honest admission that darkness and randomness are part of lived experience. It lands with readers who want imagination to feel credible, not reassuring for its own sake.
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Originally said in English.
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