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I simply wanted to go to a place that didn't know who I was.
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I was my own thief, the words came out of nowhere and caught me.
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The world is not a costume ball,
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No novels, since you just read them once and never again.
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There (Kaschau) the mountains stare down through our heads until we die.
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You can think all kinds of things. But you can't know for sure.
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There's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.
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Hunger devours nearly all the artistry.
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Hunger is not a bunker or a bed frame, otherwise it could be measured. Hunger is not an object.
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Half starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.
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a4b1d44
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Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate.
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Inside the camp the we-form is singular.
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Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you're so impossibly close is unbearable.
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