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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

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A desert is a place without expectation.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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