“… I am me, but am not me: I have spent my entire life & all of its suffering both as spectator & subject. a woman trapped eternally as a child waiting for the holy father. I look pretty but feel so young, standing on the curb sucking on the lemon of the sun.”
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“I could no longer distinguish people from monsters”
“And suffering we know breeds images, it breeds the most beautiful images of all.”
“Suffering did not make them more than men; it made them less than men”
“She lived in private with her own horror.”
“He had always thought of himself as a muddler, a sufferer, a victim.”