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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“I did care...
I did say everything I thought
In the mildest words I knew. And
now,...
I have to say I'm relieved it is over:
At the end I could feel only pity
For that urge toward more life.
...Goodbye”
― Galway Kinnell

“If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People