The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fo… - Nicole Krauss

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The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain [...] You could tell that he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?

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Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American writer.

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Sometimes I think: I am older than this tree, older than this bench, older than the rain. And yet. I'm not older than the rain. It's been falling for years and after I go it will keep on falling.

The words of our childhood became strangers to us- we couldn't use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language.

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so, no one was a greater father than I.

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