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The odd thing
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is that a relationship
can begin with the feeling
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that the world is worthless
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without this one person.
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We should not have spoken of it.
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And gradually, without you noticing
what is happening,
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this person becomes the one
who is holding back your life.
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Seeking now to de-emphasize
all unimportant details
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by blurring their images,
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struggling to eliminate Mrs. Heiberg
from his mind,
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striving somehow to impart
the quiver and intensity
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of his feelings onto
the raw surface of his canvas,
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seeking to awaken
a similar mood in the viewer,
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Munch works and reworks
the head of his sister,
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detailing hair, eyes and mouth,
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only to scrape the oil
from the canvas and begin again.
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Using his knife, the back
of his brush, the point of a pencil,