“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
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“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
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“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
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