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“Clearly, there’s no way to live a pure life, to do no harm. That old, tired activist adage that the personal is political? Everything is personal. The personal is personal. The political is personal.”
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“He yearned to reinject randomness into a life that had become proscribed by fear and control, to open the possibility for a different kind of fate. “The mind isn’t a camera recording reality, it’s a painter. It chooses what to look at, what frame to embrace it, what meaning to make,”
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“Almosts have kept me alive, and I don’t mean just breathing. They may have kept me from being remembered, but it’s this life that matters, not whatever is in the next.”
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“I am not human, and this grief is alien to me.”
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“This perpetual daylight has affected us in ways we will not be able to recognize for years, decades, centuries. If we cannot choose between darkness and lightness, what other choices are lost? If this is progress, we say nay to progress.”
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“what is life other than a single moment, always vanishing?”
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“I can’t think of a more tedious identity than one’s job,” he was known to say, irritating friends and family.”
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“We are lonely drops of water with nowhere to escape, so we try to find solace in false meaning,” said Rosenberg at a poorly attended retrospective of her work at P.S. 1 in fall 2000. “Innovation is our god, growth our religion, and it appears nothing will keep us from searching ever outward, ever upward, as we grow lonelier and sadder.”
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“Yard, sacrificing buildings in the fire’s path, to finally halt the blaze, at great cost to life and of course, more importantly, property.”
Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die
“Tears don’t disappear; they just dry up. I might die, but you can’t get rid of me.”
Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die
“Money turns us all into rabid animals.”
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“We love to believe that making art for money is freedom and making it for any other reason is failure. Isn’t that twisted?”
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“the living—the living now and the living to come. Remember us, we whisper into the ears of the future. Our mistakes have made you possible.”
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“Rosa Dolores Cruz didn’t have hope, but she was not hopeless. Her life didn’t have meaning, but it wasn’t meaningless. She didn’t believe work and accomplishments led to a better life—this was just a modern interpretation of heaven, designed to keep us in line.”
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“Cognitive dissonance is the mental toll caused by conflicting information and causes humans a great deal of distress because they have trouble containing multitudes.”
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“We will all be forgotten, you know, there’s no escaping that. All we have is this fragile sliver of time between nonexistence and death.”
Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die
“Asking someone the full expression of their name is not something you can politely do more than once, which left Krü free to reimagine himself in every relationship he had.”
Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die
“her lips, “don’t you think?”
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“Most of all, I think, I will miss life’s demands.”
Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die
“Sophie wasn’t driven by morality, she was driven by spite. The more someone said no, the more convinced she was that they were hiding something she needed to see.”
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“Welcome! There can be no meaning in a dying world.”
Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die
“What a mind-bending activity, lying on your deathbed which just last week was a regular bed.”
Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die
“Safety is an illusion manufactured by power. You can only be safe if someone else is not. So don’t be afraid.”
Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die
“I was lucky to have a love like baseball. A love I could play or coach or watch and still be a part of, no matter what direction my life took.”
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