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"Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want,pooled in the shape of a girl."
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"Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT."
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"Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want,pooled in the shape of a girl."
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"At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about myself. I did not expect to love his words. I did no expect to find myself in the."
"Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say."
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"No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been."
"But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it's not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me."
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