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The Railway Children
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“Confronted as we are by the mystery of literature, and by its inenarrable power, we are behooved to discover the source of the power and mystery. And yet, finally, what can avail? The work of literature throws before us a profound veil which we cannot plumb. And we are but votaries before it, helpless in its sway. Who would have the temerity to lift that veil aside, to discover the undiscoverable, to reach the unreachable? The strongest of us are but the puniest weaklings, are but tinkling cymbals and sounding brass, before the eternal mystery.”
John Williams, Stoner

Mitch Albom
“How can you ever be prepared to die?
"Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?”
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

Georgi Gospodinov
“Why does no one teach us what to do with the deaths of others?
Why does no one teach us how to die, how we should die?”
Georgi Gospodinov, Death and the Gardener

Mitch Albom
“The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks -we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I wanted? Is something missing?”
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

Mitch Albom
“Why is it so hard to think about dying?
"Because," Morrie continued, "most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.”
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

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