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"Sometimes the women pitied me, saying that at least they'o known real life, and I was very jealous of them, but they died, as I am about to die, and what does having lived mean once you are no lon..."

"questions were always about our failure. I didn't dare admit that I wanted to carry on walking and exploring, because I knew they'd think I was cra..."

"Frances remembered that flax had to be retted, but what was retting? Another woman suggested letting the wood soak for a ....“

"Shortly after our return, Angela announced that she was unwell. She had giody spells, memory lapses and a feeling of exhaustion that rest could not cure. She didn't think she was older than sixty..."

"I cannot mourn for what I have not known."

'Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but purely for the pleas..."

"Perhaps, when someone has experienced a day-to-day life that makes sense, they can never become accustomed to strangeness.
That is something that I, who have only experienced absurdity, ..."

"Inevitably, with memory comes pain."

"As if talking only served to make things happen. Talking is existing. Look: they know that, they talk for hours on end about nothing"

"They bustled around chatting. This was the first time l'd listened closely, and I was surprised at how much they had to say, the passion with which they repeated the same thing in ten different ways.“