A novel is a mirror walking down a road
("The English Patient")
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He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.
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There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.
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How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.
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Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
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Maybe this is the way to come out of a war, he thinks. A burned man to care for, some sheets to wash in a fountain, a room painted like a garden.
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