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Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente

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My body gleams metal, as thin and slight as a stick figure. Long quicksilver limbs and delicate spoke-fingers, joints of glass, the barest suggestion of a body. I am neither male nor female but a third thing. Only my head has weight, a ...more

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“Only a man without a conscience would say lend us your knife, we're going to slice some sausages and you can go fuck off.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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“Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick! And generally he's unable to say what he's going to do this same evening.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: russian-literature

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“Everyone and everything in this life will cause us pain at some point, but what is being hurt, that's what we have to ask ourselves. When we have discarded those things that separate us from each other, there is no hurt.”
― Nadine Bjursten, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky

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“A man is not his hands, as he can live without them, but his hands belong to him—they don't act on their own.”
― Nadine Bjursten, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky

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“I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for love? How could I know you fit my body like a glove? I like you. How unlikely. I like you. How slow all of a sudden. How sweet. You cannot know. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. I have time. Please, devour me. Deform me to the point of ugliness. Why not you? Why not you in this city and in this night, so like other cities and other nights you can hardly tell the difference? I beg of you.”
― Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour

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