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" At the top of the page I wrote my full name [...] At the sight of it, many thoughts rushed through me, but I could write down only this: "I wish I could love someone so much that I would die from it." And then as I looked at this sentence a great deal of shame came over me and I wept and wept so much that the tears fell on the page and caused all the words to become one great big blur. "

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Jamaica Kincaid quote : At the top of the page I wrote my full name [...] At the sight of it, many thoughts rushed through me, but I could write down only this: