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No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizat...more

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Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to s...more

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To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.