8 Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid about life
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That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.
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Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.
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No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.
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It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.
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The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
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I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.
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At the top of the page I wrote my full name [...] At the sight of it, many thoughts rushed through me, but I could write down only this: "I wish I could love someone so much that I would die from it." And then as I looked at this sentence a great deal of shame came over me and I wept and wept so much that the tears fell on the page and caused all the words to become one great big blur.
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The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.
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