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“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”

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Leslie Marmon Silko livre Ceremony

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“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”

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“When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.”

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“I will tell you something about stories… They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”

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“You damn your own soul better than I ever could.”

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“Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there was a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions-exactly which way to go and what to do to get there; it depended on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone.”

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Leslie Marmon Silko livre Ceremony

Ceremony (1977)