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“The world is always ending, and yet it continues to survive. We must always hope for a sustainable future, but hope is not enough.”
― The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
― The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
“All memory is a form of fiction. But all fiction is a form of reality.”
― Perforated Heart
― Perforated Heart
“I cannot mourn for what I have not known.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“There's no continuity and the world I have come from is utterly foreign to me. I haven't heard its music, I haven't seen its painting, I haven't read its books... I know only the stony plain, wandering, and the gradual loss of hope. I am the sterile offspring of a race about which I know nothing, not even whether it has become extinct. Perhaps, somewhere, humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence. There is nothing we can do about it.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“But I had only known the absurd, and I think that made me profoundly different from them”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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