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But I realized that this craving for solitude was better suited to later life, and that it had affected me too young, too early.

Every day brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world’s sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended—later, this disappeared and then showed up again in my mother.

The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse, she said.

I’ve always had just enough sense to spare others, but never enough to save myself from misfortune.