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I commit her to memory. when i'm alone, i feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. i let her go every evening only because there's nothing i can do to stop her.
-Mohsin Hamid
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I Commit Her To Memory. When I'm

Mohsin Hamid
I commit her to memory. when i'm alone, i feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. i let her go every evening only because there's nothing i can do to stop her.
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