Ben Freundlich

“...she sat down there and wept, the doctor's wife came to sit beside her, and told her, Don't cry, what else could she say, what meaning do tears have when the world has lost all meaning...”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“What do you think death is, man? Of whom do we speak when we speak of a man who was and is not? Are these blind riddles or are they not some part of every man's jurisdiction? What is death if not an agency? And whom does he intend toward?”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“I get to know a lot of people. But it never really lasts.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad