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"Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older."
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"It's not over if you're still here, Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive."

"From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes."

"A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish . . . version of a timeless rule."

"Like waking up in our home one night to find ourselves in a blazing fire, we must be arsonists of emotion, forcing ourselves to grab only what is truly important to us before our life-rafters collapse in on us and we can no longer escape alive."

"Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored."
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"Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older."
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