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We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

Jeffrey Eugenides

We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

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And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.

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And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.

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[...] and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive.

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[...] and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive.

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About Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.