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I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day.

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I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.

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Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing of real value is what we produce.

Ninni Holmqvist

Ninni Holmqvist

Ninni Holmqvist

Born: 1958 (age 68)

Bio: Ninni Holmqvist, born 24 June 1958 in Lund and currently living in Skåne, Sweden, is a translator and author of fiction. She has published two novels and two collections of short stories since 1995.

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