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“The real advantage of my situation is that now death becomes the condition and the pawn for my eternal contemplation of Faustine.”

“The final moment must be rapid, confused; we are always so far removed from death that we cannot imagine the shadows that must becloud it.”

“To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares; to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existence of a ghost).”

“Now I understand why novelists write about ghosts that weep and wail. The dead remain in the midst of the living. It is hard for them, after all, to change their habits—to give up smoking, or the prestige of being great lovers.”