“People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others”
― The Plot Against America
― The Plot Against America
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
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“The half-life of love is forever.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
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