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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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To hike out alone in the desert to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.
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We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying on alone. Everyday exactly the same: the tea, the burnt toast, the crumbs, the silence.
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He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.
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