don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

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Loneliness feels like prison.

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Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

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At eighteen you sleep without memories.

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The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.

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At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.

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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

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I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.

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The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

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My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?

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