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“I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy.”
― Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine

“Guilt is one way of attaching a meaning to a death. We want to find a meaning. It lessens the pain.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Bell