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"She wanted to vanish; she wanted every one of her cells to disappear, nothing of her ever to be found."

"I did many things in my life without conviction; I always felt slightly detached from my own actions"

"Not too long before - ten days, a month, who can say, we knew nothing about time, in those days [...] Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now"

"Life was like that, that's all, we grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us."

"Blows were given and received. Men returned home embittered by their losses, by alcohol, by debts, by deadlines, by beatings, and at the first inopportune word they beat their families, a chain of wrongs that generated wrongs."

"Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence."

"How poorly made we are, she had thought, how insufficient. The borad shoulders, the arms, the legs, the ears, noses, eyes seemed to her attributes of monstrous beings who had fallen from some corner of the black sky."

"But there was nothing to be done: something had begun to emanate from Lila's mobile body that the males sensed, an energy that dazed them, like the swelling sound of beauty arriving."

"So now she was bleeding, too. The secret movements of the body, which had reached me first, had arrived like the tremor of an earthquake in her as well and would change her, she was already changing."

"there are no gestures, words, or sighs that do not contain the sum of all the crimes that human beings have committed and commit."