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It struck him early on that people were afraid of the enemy because they were terrified that their lives might get diluted, that they might lose themselves in the tingle of knowing each other.-CM

One of the things I have learned is nobody wants to be expelled from history.-CM

Without you, she wrote in Hebrew, I am without any depths, I am on the surface here, waiting. -CM

He had learned that the cure for fate was patience.-CM

They went up in a pink mist. - CM

Wake now, he thought. Just wake and you can go wherever you want. -CM

He held his breath as he walks by the graveyard.- CM

Certain birds are said to sleep in mid-flight. They do so in short 10-second bursts, usually after nightfall. -CM

She wrote articles. She didn't hold back. She said what she wanted. It thrilled him. She brought him to the edge. His lungs were bursting.-CM

So often, thought Rami, the ordinary can save us. -CM

Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she - or he - would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known. -AC

In the rigid face only the eyes lived still, glowing with courage.- AC 😭

Thus the coming liberation had a twofold aspect, of happiness and tears. - AC

There was no room in any heart but for the very old, gray hope, that hope which keeps men from letting themselves drift into death and is nothing but a dogged will to live. -AC

If you divide death by life, you will find a circle.-CM

Once in awhile he would see the women dance. -CM

The winter sun shown slant.-CM

The only interesting thing is to live-CM

Everyone supposed that the sermon had ended. Outside, the rain had seized and watery Sunshine was yellowing the cathedral square. -AC

Gray with dust, the palms and fig trees drooped despondently around a statue of the Republic, which too was coded with grime and dust. -AC

The telegram ran: Proclaim a state of plague stop close the town-AC

There was a Serene Blue sky flooded with golden light each morning, with sometimes a drone of planes in the rising heat - all seemed well with the world. - AC

For some moments he lingered, gazing up the dark street, watching the stars appear and disappear in the blackness of the sky. -AC

From the outline districts - as happens every evening in our town - a gentle breeze wafted a murmur of voices, smells of roasting meat, a gay, perfumed tide of freedom sounding on its way, as the street filled up with noisy young people released from shops and offices. -AC

There are no more cats. - AC

Only winter brings really pleasant weather.

The window was open. The cocks were tearing to shreds the Morning mist which draped the branches of the pines with translucent tatters. The countryside lays soaked in dawn. How could she bring herself to abandon so much light? -FM

She had reached its darkest point. Like some panic-strickened animal, she felt only that she had got to get out of the blackness, out of the smoke, into the fresh air, as quickly as possibly she could. -FM