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He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.
Nicole Krauss
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Nicole Krauss
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: August 18
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