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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.

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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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