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I felt like myself only in the quiet hours of the night.
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The speaker says that nighttime quiet was the only setting in which they felt fully like themselves. The words suggest that silence and solitude allowed their ordinary sense of self to emerge, unlike the other hours of the day.
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- Rediff On The Net — The Rediff Interview/Kamala Das
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