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But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

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Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

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Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

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Our love has been the thread through thelabyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could e...more

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The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happene...more

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There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness...more

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Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way otherthan just getting older.

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After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every ...more