Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa’s world that … - Anthony Marra

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The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships - i. e. , the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences.

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Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa’s world that she could no more describe him than she could the air.

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She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

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Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

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But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

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A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.

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We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

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