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His family would haunt him for life: and nothing in his writing gives the impression he was surprised that it should be so. We are haunted animals: ghosts, Donne’s work and life suggest, should be treated as the norm.
“Somewhere in the Andes, they believe to this very day that the future is behind you. It comes up from behind your back, surprising and unforeseeable, while the past is always before your eyes, that which has already happened. When they talk about the past, the people of the Aymara tribe point in front of them. You walk forward facing the past and you turn back toward the future.”
― Time Shelter
― Time Shelter
“At what age in a child’s life does rage become sorrow?”
― Stella Maris
― Stella Maris
“It’s just that sometimes I think I would have found my life pretty funny if I hadnt had to live it.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
“The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.”
― Stella Maris
― Stella Maris
“I have never thought this life particularly salubrious or benign and I have never
understood in the slightest why I was here. If there is an afterlife - and I pray most fervently that there is not - I can only hope that they wont sing. Be of good cheer, Squire. This was the ongoing adjuration of the early Christians and in this at least they were right. You know that I've always thought your history unnecessarily embittered. Suffering is a part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.
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― The Passenger
understood in the slightest why I was here. If there is an afterlife - and I pray most fervently that there is not - I can only hope that they wont sing. Be of good cheer, Squire. This was the ongoing adjuration of the early Christians and in this at least they were right. You know that I've always thought your history unnecessarily embittered. Suffering is a part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.
p.347”
― The Passenger
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