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“Non, reprends-toi ! La vie est belle. Tu as tout ce que tu désires. Et tu sais très bien qu’on est toujours tout seul. Dans les moments vraiment flippants de l’existence, on est tout seul. On est tout seul quand l’amour s’en va, tout seul quand les flics débarquent au petit matin, tout seul face au médecin qui nous annonce un cancer, tout seul quand on crève…”
― Je reviens te chercher
― Je reviens te chercher
“We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions upon trillions of living things have prepared the way for us and then have died—in a sense, for us. We die, in turn, so that others may live. The tragedy of a single individual becomes, in the balance of natural things, the triumph of ongoing life.”
― How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
― How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
“They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that,' he said. Then, a moment later, he added: 'Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else.”
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“There we met Distance, a hardened ANC fighter with the looks and physique of an adventure movie-star. It was a quiet day and one of us mentioned Abdul. Distance looked at us and then said: "I am not sorry your friend Abdul was killed. It is good that one of you dies. Nothing personal, but now you feel what is happening to us every day.”
― The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War
― The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War
“… if you refuse to let your own suffering lie upon you for an hour and if you constantly try to prevent and forestall all possible stress way ahead of time; if you experience suffering and displeasure as evil, hateful, worthy of annihilation, and as a defect of existence, then it is clear that besides your religion of pity you also harbor another religion in your heart that is perhaps the mother of the religion of pity: the religion of comfortableness. How little you know of human happiness, you comfortable and benevolent people, for happiness and unhappiness are sisters and even twins that either grow up together or, as in your case, remain small together.”
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