Simple passion

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“Whether or not he was “worth it” is of no consequence. And the fact that all this is gradually slipping away from me, as if it concerned another woman, does not change this one truth: thanks to him, I was able to approach the frontier separating me from others, to the extent of actually believing that I could sometimes cross over it”

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“When I went into the kitchen to get some ice, I would look up at the clock hanging above the door: ‘only two more hours’, ‘only one more hour’ or ‘in one hour I’ll be here and he’ll be gone’. Astonished, I asked myself: ‘Where is the present?”

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“Children will always refuse to see the truth reflected in their mother’s absent stare and silent behavior: at times they mean nothing to her, in the same way that grown-up kittens can mean nothing to a mother cat longing to go on the prowl.”