As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
("The Thirteenth Tale")
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Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.
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I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter
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I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.
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