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"you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself."
— Joyce Carol Oates (Small Avalanches and Other Stories)
— Joyce Carol Oates (Small Avalanches and Other Stories)
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