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There's 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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Manhattan borough
New York City
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Silence

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In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
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...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.
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