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The organisation of life into story, the ascription to it of meaning, the heart’s cry for an eternal parent protector figure, all these wouldn’t be so necessary if we never died, or if, like animals, we didn’t know we die. Death doesn’t
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“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
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“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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