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“Four things do not come back: the spoke word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.”

“The thing that makes you a good designer is a rich life, and rich sources to draw on. You go to the source; you go to deep texts to do that. But not only deep texts; good films, good music, good literature. The kind of surface treatment is not important”

“Most of the work you do will be for the average person. Don’t separate yourself from society so much that you forget what it’s like to live life.”

"Everything the living did for the dead just highlighted the solitude of the dead and satisfied the vanity of the living; all that chatter in remembrance of a dead person's good quality was nothing more than jockeying for social position."

"In the face of a meaningless death, hanging on to the self becomes a task as sacred as it is selfish."

“In the end, though, war is war, and it wouldn’t be over easily or quickly. It carried its stench with it wherever it reached, wafting over everyone, leaving nothing as it had been. It altered souls, thoughts, dreams; it tested everyone’s capacity for endurance.”

“In the end, though, war is war, and it wouldn’t be over easily or quickly. It carried its stench with it wherever it reached, wafting over everyone, leaving nothing as it had been. It altered souls, thoughts, dreams; it tested everyone’s capacity for endurance.”

“The living have a harder task ahead of them than the dead; no one wants to see their loved ones rot. They want them to look their best in death for that final memory that can never be erased”