Wow. This is brilliant.
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‘But not this...not this...something was still unclear. Just a kind of bad feeling. Like being forced into a nightmare and not being allowed to wake up from it. You’re caught up with several voices. You don’t know what. Maybe the answer is to stand up and resist? But maybe, the opposite, to see and be and feel until the blood flows in order to...in order to what? Time is passing...’
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‘When you go to a place where you might die that’s one thing, but when you go to a place where other people are liable to die and you just stand and watch them, that’s something quite different.’
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‘Something struck me like lightning. All at once everything seemed to mean something different, more precisely: exile. This was exile. This was what exile was like. This was what exile looked like.’
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