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      "text": "No people whose word for \"yesterday\" is the same as their word for \"tomorrow\" can be said to have a firm grip on the time.",
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      "text": "\"You be respectable, sister,\" she said, \"Me, I'll be alive.\"",
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      "text": "Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each \"I\", everyone of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.",
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      "text": "And there are so many stories to tell, too many, such an excess of intertwined lives events miracles places rumors, so dense a commingling of the improbable and the mundane! I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one of me, you'll have to swallow the lot as well.",
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