I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
("Everything is Illuminated")
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The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.
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Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.
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I could write more, but that is all that matters.
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