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As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles.She wasbuoyant by nature;she wanted to travel,go to the theater, go to museums.What he wantedwas to lie on the couchwith the Timesover his face,so that death, when it came,wouldn't seem a significant change.
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Come to me said the world. I was standingin my wool coat at a kind of bright portal—I can finally saylong ago; it gives me considerable pleasure. Beautythe healer, the teacher—death cannot harm memore than you have harmed me,my beloved life.
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I write about you all the time, I said aloud. Every time I say "I", it refers to you.
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Suddenly, after you die, those friends who never agreed about anything agree about your character.
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I am tired of having handsshe saidI want wings —But what will you do without your handsto be human?I am tired of humanshe saidI want to live on the sun —
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We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
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You stand as rocks stand to which the sea reaches in transparent waves of longing;they are marred, finally;everything fixed is marred.And the sea triumphs,like all that is false,all that is fluent and womanly.
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It begins quietly in certain female children: the fear of death, taking as its formdedication to hunger,because a woman's bodyis a grave; it will acceptanything.
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At twilight I went into the street. The sun hung low in the iron sky, ringed with cold plumage.If I could write to youabout this emptiness--
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