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“So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.”
― The First Man
― The First Man
“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
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“Reality doesn't surprise me. But that's not true: I suddenly feel such a hunger for the "thing to really happen" that I cry out and bite into reality with my lacerating teeth. And afterwards give a sigh over the captive whose flesh I ate. And again, for a long while, I do without real reality and find comfort in living from my imagination.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
Miriam’s 2025 Year in Books
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