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David Mitchell

"Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them."

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"Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them."

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"We must love one another or die."

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"For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life."

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"I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for, to call her own, she helped out at the store, then came home and sat in her big chair and stared at her magazines, not at them but through them, she let the dust accumulate on her shoulders."

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