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A Truncated Building
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"He began to regard everything with secret but deep mistrust. Without any apparent origin one thought was firmly rooted in his mind: every human action, every word may bring evil. And this possibility linked itself to everything he heard, saw, said or thought. The triumphant Vizier had come to know the fear of life. So, unawares, he entered the stage which is the first phase of dying, when a man comes to be absorbed more in the shadows of things than in the things themselves."
(Ivo Andrić/The Bridge on the Žepa)
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