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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.
“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
“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
“And rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief,”
― Stella Maris
― Stella Maris
“Nobody comes with names. You give them names so that you can find them in the dark.”
― Stella Maris
― Stella Maris
“The abyss of the past into which the world is falling. Everything vanishing as if it had never been. We would hardly wish to know ourselves again as we once were and yet we mourn the days.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
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