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“But don’t you think,” I persist, “that it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”

— Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)

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But as usual there’s no answer to this. As usual, that’s just how it is.

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Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

Clare takes a mouthful, swallows it in a businesslike fashion, and says, “Well, that’s not so bad.”
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“Oh. Well, that was marvelous.”

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