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For we are the citizens of Tanis, silted city of the silted Nile. No barges come to carry away the great carvings we have made.
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You are always far from home. Your wellbeing rests always in the hands of your host.
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To receive no reply from the expected source. To receive no reply at all.
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Your wound may be cleaned and dressed, but it will never heal.
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I search for the lost city only in arguments against its existence.
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Nothing that is written shall ever come to pass.
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You arrived at the bend in the river. Nothing marked it as the end of your outward journey. Still, you turned back.
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Cherry blossom, both fleeting and eternal. But with each passing year, more fleeting and less eternal.
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Curse us if what was said could not be heard. Bless them if what was given could not be kept.
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The Law has changed! What was done must now be undone. And what was undone must now be done.
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As it is reeled in, the fish comforts itself with the fiction of the lure. It was never attracted by the hook.
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I wanted to attack, but all the counters were glued to the board.
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I don't gamble because I think I am going to win, I gamble because I want to impose an intelligible pattern on my losses.
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