Quotation
Vilami na vode pisano , the future is written with a pitchfork on flowing water . No one knows what’s going to happen .
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Tant pis , a shame , but one does not go barefoot on the sidewalks of dog - loving Paris.
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Rodina , the Motherland , but the clean bite of pine forest and loamy black earth was tainted by a hint of liquid corruption , like a dead animal beneath the floorboards .
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She was learning to wait , to listen , to appear to be a wholly quiescent creature of the mephitic atmosphere of her Service .
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Dominika was born a synesthete , with a brain wired to see colored auras around people and thereby read passion , treachery , fear , or deception