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• Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,
• Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no…
• In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.
• I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way…
• My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore…
• Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".
• Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate…
• Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.
• I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I…
• I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never…
• When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
• Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard,…

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