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“What is left after a death? Everything else. The sun a man saw rise goes down though he does not see it set. A woman sits down to the weaving another woman left in the loom.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“If you stop to curse you are lost, I said to her; equally, if you stop to laugh. Hesitate or fumble and you are done for. Think only of the jump, I implored her.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Our right to be here is weaker by the minute”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green