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“I felt a knot of pain tightening in my solar plexus. I couldn't tell whether it was fear I was experiencing, or happiness.”

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Book:Human Acts

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“But now, each time I fall asleep, and each time I wake up again, I see those faces. Their pale skin, their closed mouths, their legs stretched out straight...it's so clear, so vivid, it's like they're really there. Just like the face of the man with blood dripping from his jaw, his eyes half closed...etched into the insides of my eyelids. Inside, where I can't get at it. Where I'll never be able to scrape it off.”

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“Your own dreams are filled with sights that are quite different from the ones haunting this first witness.”

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“The streetlamp's feeble glow encases it in a lead-gray aureole, but beyond the reach of its light the night is pitch black. It isn't safe to stray beyond the bounds of this lit place. You do not know what might be lurking in the darkness.”

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“Wait for the sun to rise and the outer dark to dissipate. You've held out this far, you mustn't waver now. Safer to keep your feet absolutely still, rather than risk taking a false step.”

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“Living alone means there's no need to consider whether you'll be waking another person up, so you walk straight over to the door and switch on the light. You switch on all the lights, in the bathroom, the kitchen, the entrance hall, and fill a glass with cold water, your hand trembling only very slightly, and drink.”

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“You understand that he is thinking of the meager pay, the laborious, irregular duties that are never sufficiently recompensed, your bony hands with their protruding veins running along the backs.”

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“Overwhelmed with exhaustion, you bow your head.”

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Book:Human Acts

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“You raise your head and smile in the way you always do when you cannot think of an appropriate reply.”

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Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts