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  1. William T. Vollmann _ The Ice-Shirt

    The landscape around us is but a shadow of the landscape within us.
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  2. William T. Vollmann _ The Ice-Shirt

    But I don't think a river wants anything, except to be itself. Just like anybody and anything. I don't think it claimed a soul. I don't think it's at all vindictive or vicious, just itself. It just seemed very honest. If you hear a river moan, you know it has life.
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  3. William T. Vollmann _ The Ice-Shirt

    Looking at her, thinking of her transported him, which struck him as vile because now it was hard for him not to despise the icy serenity of their earlier relations. And he knew that he should not love her, for she had been someone else whom he was supposed to love differently. -What is loneliness? Does the lonely space between two rocks vanish when spanned by a spider web?
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  4. William T. Vollmann _ The Ice-Shirt

    But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs {and there are ever so many others!} may be read by those to whom truth is more important than beauty.
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  5. William T. Vollmann _ The Ice-Shirt

    {Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?}
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