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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 cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.
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Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".
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When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
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What can be said about chronic hunger. Perhaps that there's a hunger that can make you sick with hunger. That it comes in addition to the hunger you already feel. That there is a hunger which is always new, which grows insatiably, which pounces on the never-ending old hunger that already took such effort to tame. How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry.
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I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.
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Who can take a single step with his head?
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Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.
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Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that.
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Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?
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