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A Little Life

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Hanya Yanagihara

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“طوال عمره كان يكره هؤلاء الذين يحاولون أن يقولوا أي شيء في العزاء ... في النهاية لا ينطقون إلا كلاما محفوظا, ولا يقولونه إلا ليشعروا أنهم أتموا واجبا ما, ليشعروا بالرضا عن أنفسهم .. لكن ذلك الذي مات له شخص ما.. لا أحد يشعر به, ولا حتى يقترب من الفهم.”

“The virus that had lay dormant for two years had been reawakened by simply seeing her smile. He thought he would be impervious to it by now, but every time her eyes changed colour, every time she giggled, it just caused the infection to spread. He had no idea why he continued to torment himself this way; burning for a woman he knew he could not have. He happily spent an hour or two with her each day and then braced himself for the self-inflicted torture that inevitably ensued at night. That torture had become his way of life, but he found that a worse fate would be not seeing at all.”