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“I kept on holding the telephone receiver in my hand knowing that it was my call, and she would not put her receiver down first. There was pin-drop silence on both sides but still, I could hear her heartbeats as if it wasn't a telephone receiver but a stethoscope in my hand. After a brief moment spread over centuries,I heard a sound, the sound of something breaking. It was eerily similar to the sound when a star, being pulled by two equally powerful black holes and unable to decide which one to choose, falls apart, breaking into pieces like a glass I put the receiver back; a soft click sound indicated disconnection. The last means of communication between us had been disconnected as if the doctor had just pulled the cable from ventilator which had kept the terminally ill patient alive. I felt a deep lump in my throat, legs failing to carry my weight; I fell down on the nearby sofa like a log of wood”

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“But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would leave a bad taste. That would just be bad theatre, wouldn't it? A bad show. You want a good show. They all do. A few pretty tears on my cheeks that you can brush away. Just a delicate little bit of ouch so you know there's someone in there. So you don't get too scared of me, am I right? So you know I'm still a vulnerable thing. That I can be brought down if I need be.”

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Book:All's Well
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“Έχω να πω το εξής για τον πόνο της ψυχής – ότι προσδίδει ένα ζοφερό βάρος στα πράγματα και ρίχνει επάνω τους ένα πρωτόγνωρα ψυχρό, αποκαλυπτικό φως. Διαστέλλει το πνεύμα, αφαιρεί το προστατευτικό εξωτερικό περίβλημα και αφήνει τον εσωτερικό εαυτό εκτεθειμένο στα στοιχεία της φύσης, με όλα τα νεύρα ξεγυμνωμένα να αντηχούν σαν χορδές της άρπας στον άνεμο.”

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Book:Ancient Light
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Book:இறையுதிர் காடு [Iraiyudhir Kaadu]
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Book:In the Penal Colony
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“[S]he made haste to light the whole bundle of matches, for she wished to keep her grandmother there. And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.”

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Book:The Little Match Girl
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