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“After you were lost to us, all our hours declined into evening.
Evening are our streets and our houses.
In this half-light that no longer darkens nor lightens, we eat, and walk, and sleep.”
― Human Acts
Evening are our streets and our houses.
In this half-light that no longer darkens nor lightens, we eat, and walk, and sleep.”
― Human Acts
“It was as though she had veered, accidentally, into her own life.”
― The Stone Diaries
― The Stone Diaries
“I'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.”
― Human Acts
― Human Acts
“Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
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