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"Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story."
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"Everyone wanted me to feed them that story-darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too."
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"Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased."
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"The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, 'I read, therefore it writes."
"The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours."
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