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The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life

by Sheldon Solomon

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The Thief's Journal

by Jean Genet

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Wittgenstein’s Mistress

by David Markson

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“Some people do not even want to look at a person when the person is alive, but when the person dies they write eloquent obituaries and make offerings of flowers. At that point the person has died and cannot really enjoy the fragrance of the flowers anymore. If we really understood and remembered that life was impermanent, we would do everything we could to make the other person happy right here and right now.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

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“This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare.49 It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them. And even if it were possible to permanently banish everything threatening—everything dangerous (and, therefore, everything challenging and interesting), that would mean only that another danger would emerge: that of permanent human infantilism and absolute uselessness.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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