“No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.”
― Letter to a Child Never Born
― Letter to a Child Never Born
“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.
Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
[Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died]”
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Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
[Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died]”
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“When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone—‘I didn’t mean to startle her.”
― Masques
― Masques
“How can a man understand a woman who is expecting a child. He can't get pregnant. Is that an advantage or a limitation? Up until yesterday it seemed to me an advantage, even a privilege. Today it seems to me a limitation, even an impoverishment. There's something glorious about enclosing another life in your own body, in knowing yourself to be two instead of one. At moments you're even invaded by a sense of triumph, and in the serenity accompanying that triumph nothing bothers you: neither the physical pain you'll have to face, nor the work you'll have to sacrifice, nor the freedom you'll have to give up.”
― Letter to a Child Never Born
― Letter to a Child Never Born
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