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• I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.
• Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own…
• To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and…
• I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having…
• Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a…
• But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange.…
• It is dangerous to live in a secure world.
• I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.
• I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know…
• The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
• It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
• We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities.…

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