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“Every time our shadow-boundaries brushed against each other, an echo of some appalling suffering was transmitted to me like an electric shock.”

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Book:Human Acts

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“The body that had caused me such shame was going to be devoured by the flames—that was no cause for regret. I wanted to pare myself down to a simpler existence, just as I had while I'd still been alive. I was determined not to be afraid of anything.”

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“After a day spent sitting at her desk, she took pleasure in an unhurried walk home through the streets. This was the only time of day when she chose not to shut out the inchoate thoughts that surfaced, unbidden, as she threaded her way through the streets.”

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“How is it, she wonders, that a face can so effectively conceal what lies behind it? How is it not indelibly marked by such callousness, brutality, murderousness?”

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Book:Human Acts

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“After you were lost to us, all our hours declined into evening Evening are our streets and our houses. In this half-light that no longer darkens nor lightens, we eat, and walk, and sleep.”

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Book:Human Acts

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“She doesn't put on any makeup, just Vaseline for her chapped lips. Powdering one's face to a milky whiteness, spritzing on perfume, slipping feet into high-heeled shoes: these are all things that other women do, but not she.”

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“Briefly, she let her hand linger on the small mirror she kept there. The world imprisoned in its glass was cold, silent, and unchanging. Gazing abstractedly into that world, the face that looked out at her was familiar, but for the bluish bruise branded on the cheek.”

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Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“There'd been a time when people had been quick to tell her how "cute" she was. You've got such nice features, it's like they came out of a copybook. You look like a dancer with that black hair, a salon perm would be pointless on you. But after that summer when she was eighteen, the summer of the fountain, no one said such things to her anymore.”

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Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“We can be beacons of light”

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