Alessandra

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Alessandra’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End

The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End by Harold Schechter

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Here’s a checklist of things to consider, based on recommendations by the Funeral Consumers Alliance: Do you want your organs donated? Which ones? Should they go to any particular medical school? Do you want to be buried? Where? What kind ...more

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Alessandra’s Quotes

“I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.”
― Jackson Pearce, Sisters Red

tags: libraries

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“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."

[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]”
― Archibald MacLeish

tags: books, knowledge, libraries, reading

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“Libraries
Are
Neccessary
Gardens,
Unsurpassed
At
Growing
Excitement”
― J. Patrick Lewis, Please Bury Me in the Library

tags: books, libraries, library, reading

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“Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.”
― Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans

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