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“You’re not a creature in body.You exist as the stars exist,participating in their stillness, their immensity.”
“You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confrontmuch sorrow and disappointment.He gazed at me with increasing frankness.I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.”
“Once I could imagine my soulI could imagine my death.When I imagined my deathmy soul died. ThisI remember clearly.My body persisted.Not thrived, but persisted.Why I do not know.”
“Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.”