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“ So what was it then exactly, this truth-telling? ... It was about being true to the very stuff of life, it was about trying to capture, though you never could, the very feel of being alive. It was about finding a language. And it was about being true to the fact, the one thing only followed from the other, that many things in life —of so many more than we think—can never be explained at all. ”

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How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

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There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

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And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.

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