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You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a ????ing mess.

You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I’m afraid, looks a ????ing mess.
– Julian Barnes

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