Quote #2
The words of our childhood became strangers to us- we couldn't use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language. [citation needed]
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- All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen. [citation needed]
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- When I got up again, I'd shed the only part of me that had ever thought I'd find words for even the smallest bit of life.
- Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
- These things were lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone ever taking the time to write it all down.
- Perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so, no one was a greater father than I.
- Franz Kafka is dead