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You're lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you've locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you're like that, unguarded, than when you're awake. When you're awake you're like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can't reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.
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loneliness
great-house
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Nicole Krauss |
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e260a69
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Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.
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sadness
the-history-of-love
nicole-krauss
dictionary
tea
sad
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Nicole Krauss |
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bcbe846
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It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.
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the-history-of-love
nicole-krauss
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Nicole Krauss |
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4edb2d9
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She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.
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the-history-of-love
nicole-krauss
garden
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Nicole Krauss |
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b6a3d91
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I was familiar with the little mating rituals of getting to know each other, of dragging out the stories from childhood, summer camp, and high school, the famous humiliations, and the adorable things you said as a child, the familial dramas--of having a portrait of yourself, all the while making yourself out to be a little brighter, a little more deep than deep down you knew you actually were. And though I hadn't had more than three or four relationships, I already knew that each time the thrill of telling another the story of yourself wore off a little more, each time you threw yourself into it a little less, and grew more distrustful of an intimacy that always, in the end, failed to pass into true understanding.
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relationships
identity
love
nicole-krauss
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Nicole Krauss |
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I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each time he begins a book.
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reading
books
history-of-love
nicole-krauss
book
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Nicole Krauss |