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All my life i have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer i get to death the earlier i arrive, the longer i am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.
-Nicole Krauss
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All My Life I Have Arrived Early

Nicole Krauss
All my life i have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer i get to death the earlier i arrive, the longer i am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.
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