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The Denial of Death

by Ernest Becker

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“Like many people who have nothing to do, he was very resentful of any claims on his time.”
― William S. Burroughs, Queer

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“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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“The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.' Sula said that. She said doing anything forever and ever was hell.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

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“How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?”
― Virginia Woolfová, To the Lighthouse

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“We are terrified of future catastrophes and are thrown into a continuous state of misery and anxiety, and for fear of becoming miserable, we never cease to be so, always panting for riches and never giving our souls or our bodies a moment’s peace. But those who are content with little live day by day and treat any day like a feast day.”
― Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

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