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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

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Michael Ondaatje

Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

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I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.

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There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.

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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

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