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Schwyz had spoken in Romansh.
What is the significance of this?
“think that for others in my family, who didn’t see him at the end, who didn’t witness his slow decline, he may live intact in memory, much as he was before his illness. I hope so. But that isn’t true for me. It was in part to exorcise my final haunting images of my father that I wanted to look at, to explain, the way he fragmented and lost himself in his illness; and who he was before”
― The Story of My Father: A Memoir
― The Story of My Father: A Memoir
“Nobody had warned her of this as a girl, when they carried on over her beautiful light complexion. How easily her skin would wear the mark of an angry man.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“One can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted.”
― A Passage to India
― A Passage to India
“Wars have the power to turn graceful and cultured people into monsters.”
― The Mountains Sing
― The Mountains Sing
“One of Montaigne’s key instances is the story of Pomponius Atticus, a correspondent of Cicero’s. When Atticus fell ill, and medical attempts to prolong his existence merely prolonged his pain, he decided that the best solution was to starve himself to death. No need to petition a court in those days, citing the terminal deterioration in your “quality of life”: Atticus, being a Free Ancient, merely informed his friends and family of his intention, then refused food and waited for the end. In this, he was much confounded. Miraculously”
― Nothing to Be Frightened of
― Nothing to Be Frightened of
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