“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual.”
― The Undiscovered Self
― The Undiscovered Self
“Where the many are, there is security; what the many believe must of course be true; what the many want must be worth striving for, and necessary, and therefore good.”
― The Undiscovered Self
― The Undiscovered Self
“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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