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Charles Bukowski
“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”
Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Virginia Woolf
“A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Charles Bukowski
“regret is mostly caused by not having
done anything.”
Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

David Foster Wallace
“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
David Foster Wallace

Hannah Arendt
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.”
Hannah Arendt

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