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To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. so that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been.
-Nicole Krauss
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Nicole Krauss
To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. so that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been.
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