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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them there ought to be as many for love.

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I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Knowing too mu...more

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Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

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How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.