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Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum of all the choices gone before?
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I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.
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Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
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We all know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a time when we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.Let them become the photograph on the table.Let them become the name on the trust accounts.Let go of them in the water.Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of them in the water.
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I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let go of them in the water. Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of him in the water.
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear.
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I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future.
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Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. The connections that made up their life--both the deep connections and the apparently (until they are broken) insignificant connections--have all vanished.
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Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing.
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