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He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his ...more

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And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

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If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That...more