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“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

“[T]he unnamed soldier is a gift. The named soldier--dead, melted wax--demands a response among the living...a response no-one can make. Names are no comfort, they're a call to answer the unanswerable. Why did she die, not him? Why do the survivors remain anonymous--as if cursed--while the dead are revered? Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold?

Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand