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  1. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    Why make this call and not just say what you wanted?His eyes. His blue eyes. His blue imperfect eyes.
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  2. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    I am dropping my keys on the table inside the door before I fully remember. There is no one to hear this news, nowhere to go with the unmade plan, the uncompleted thought. There is no one to agree, disagree, talk back. "I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense," C. S. Lewis wrote after the death of his wife. "It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought, feeling after feeling, action after action, had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an arrow to the string, then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead thought to H. I set out on one of them. But now there's an impassable frontierpost across it. So many roads once; now so many cul de sacs." We
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  3. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end."
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  4. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs.
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  5. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    or amended and saved at 1:08 p.m. that afternoon
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  6. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be.
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  7. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    De fiecare dată aceste rugăminți pentru prezența lui nu au făcut decât să-mi întărească conștiința tăcerii definitive care ne-a despărțit.
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  8. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    Doliul se dovedește a fi un loc pe care îl cunoaștem doar atunci când ajungem la el. {...} Nu putem ști dinainte despre faptul nesfârșitei absente care urmează {și aici stă esența deosebirii între doliul imaginat de noi și cel real}, golul, opusul extrem al sensului, succesiunea inexorabilă de momente în timpul cărora ne vom confrunta cu experiența zădărniciei înseși.
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  9. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    De ce trebuie să ai mereu dreptate, îmi spunea el. N-a înțeles vreodată că în mintea mea n-aveam niciodată dreptate.
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  10. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    Doliul e diferit. Doliul nu știe ce-i distanța. Durerea vine în valuri, paroxisme, revelații subite care-ți taie genunchii, îți iau vederea și îți tulbură curgerea zilelor.
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  11. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    The second kind of grief was "complicated grief," which was also known in the literature as "pathological bereavement" and was said to occur in a variety of situations. One situation in which pathological bereavement could occur, I read repeatedly, was that in which the survivor and the deceased had been unusually dependent on one another."
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  12. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    I did not want to finish the year because I know that as the days pass, as January becomes February and February becomes summer, certain things will happen.
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