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It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she were gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart,...more

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I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am...more

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There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be redone. Come this tar, and...more

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There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be undone. Come this far, and...more

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It was as if-this is something I thought of only later, of course-she was gently peeling bcd one layer after another hat covered a person's heart, a v...more

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In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

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Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory.

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Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory.

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From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

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I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

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The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

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What alternative is there to the media’s “Us” versus “Them”? The danger is that if it is used to prop up this “righteous” position of “ours” all we wi...more

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Psychologically speaking (I’ll only wheel out the amateur psychology just this once, so bear with me), encounters that call up strong physical disgust...more

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Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousnes...more