Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.

Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses. The damage that has been done to my life is not of my choosing. It is for this reason, I have learned to live with the rubble and confusion of a house that has fallen apart. My life has been a series of failures but it is the only one I have been given.

What was once a house of splendor, glory, and beauty has been reduced to rubble and confusion. But it is only what you get when you enter a house of rubble and confusion.

Source: By The Sea

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