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'Whenever I think back to my home, where there's no one left now, I can see that in times gone by things must have been different. In those days people knew (or suspected) that they had death inside them like the stone inside a fruit. Children had a small one in them and grown-ups a big one. Women had it in their womb and men in their chest. They had it and it gave them a particular dignity and quiet pride.'
— Apr 05, 2020 01:36AM
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At that time I somehow had a presentiment, which I so often felt later on, that we didn't have the right to open a book if we weren't committed to reading all of them. With every line you broke off a piece of the world. Before books the world was unharmed and perhaps in time it would be whole again.
— Apr 23, 2020 04:51AM
