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"She told me that love is when a person introduces you to yourself for the first time."

["Conception"

13/18 -" French Artist Killed Sunday´s Earthquake"

"She wondered if she had lived her entire life from under the collapsed building. That her life was imagined by a self she’d never fully known.

And then with the expediency of the dying, she immediately fell in love with the darkness and the eight seconds she had left in it—each second like a mouthful of food to a starving man."

"My wife is deaf. Once she asked me if snow made a sound when it fell and I lied. We have been married twelve years today, and I am leaving her."

[10/18 - Snow Falls and Then Disappears]

"My memories are arranged like puddles—they are littered throughout the present moment. It seems arbitrary, that which the mind remembers, but I know it is not."

[6º conto, The World Laughs in Flowers]

"After school as usual, he crossed Fifth Avenue and headed for the bench. Along the main path, a tourist laughed uncontrollably as he posed for a portrait. His girlfriend laughed, too; they kissed. At first, Edgar had thought tourists were foolish to want pictures for themselves and their loved ones, but after his mother died, he realized that memory needs all the help it can get, and things are sometimes like keys."