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I don’t cry for my mother’s death. Or for myself. I cry because these strangers in the hospital—the nurse, the doctor, the police officer—don’t know my mother, and yet they were closest to her when she died. And when your people die, you
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
Speculative Fiction in Translation
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This is a group dedicated to reading SF works from around the world translated into English. We cover both new releases and older publications, and no ...more
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