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“That was the old composition and I had walked out of that world. I had literally walked off the stage.”
― Deborah Levy, August Blue

“Night ended, morning came, and as I looked out on the blueness spreading into the corners of the sky, I thought about what he had told me, about all the light that was there and yet impossible to see.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“Why does the night have to be so beautiful?”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“My words were smaller than my feelings at that moment. I had spent my life finding diplomatic words. Am I a diplomat then? Isn’t it hard enough to play Beethoven”
― Deborah Levy, August Blue