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It is strange that I am dying from a diseased womb, I who have never had periods and who have never known men.

Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars, saying, in my croaky voice: 'Lord, if you're up there somewhere, and you aren't too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I'm very lonely and it would make me so happy. Nothing happened.

'It's true, she agreed. 'You are the only one of us who belongs to this country.’
'No, this country belongs to me. I will be its sole owner and everything here will be mine.’

I cannot mourn for what I have not known.

"We're not very resourceful, are we!' said Greta ruefully.
'We come from a world where it wasn't necessary, everything was ready-made and we never asked how things were produced, replied Frances.

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 pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I'll never be able to use it.
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her being a clock

Men mean you are alive, child. What are we, without a future, without children? The last links in a broken chain.