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Maldoror and the Complete Works

by Comte de Lautréamont

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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

by Thomas Metzinger

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“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”
― John Banville, The Sea

tags: acceptance, death, grief, immortality, life-goes-on, loss, memory, mourning, sorrow

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“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”
― Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

tags: loss, mourning

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“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved”
― Iris Murdoch

tags: bereavement, darkness, grief

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“To whom can I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought... ?”
― Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

tags: love, mourning

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“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

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