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It is a shame, such a shame, Harry thought,
that to be a human is to be one thing, to be
contained, to have these walls of skin and a singular sense of self that sloshes and slaps around inside of us like water on the inside of a well.
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the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue.
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The only thing worse than death is knowledge of it coming
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For we inherit the haunts of our mothers;
we are left with the guests they let in.
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It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers.
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But lovers are notoriously reckless with each other's insides. Even if it seems on skin-surface that all is well. That love is gentle.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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ΓlΓΌm bir yaΕamΔ± kaybetmek, ama seslenecek birini bulmaktΔ±r aynΔ± zamanda.
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Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation.
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