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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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A language is a map of our failures.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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