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Hamlet in Purgatory

by Stephen Greenblatt

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Being and Time: A Study of Being, Existence, and the Meaning of Time (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)

by Martin Heidegger

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Ella’s Quotes

“When the poor ghosts have gone, what remains are ordinary obligations and ordinary interests. One can live quietly and try to do tiny good things and harm no one.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

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“The bottom of the sea is cruel.”
― Hart Crane

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“In the resurrection, when we come up looking backward at each other, I shall know you only of all that company.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

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“It was not for an outrage that they grieved, but for simple grief: the only alternative to which was nothing, and between grief and nothing only the coward takes nothing.”
― William Faulkner, A Fable

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“Suffering is no scandal. It is natural. Nature appoints it. All creation suffers. It suffers from having been created, if from nothing else. It suffers from being divided from God.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn

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