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“I mean, death is death. It’s all a waste and none of it’s good. Immortal soul sick with desire and fastened to a dying animal, whatever. But you’re not wasting your dying, you know? You’re here doing this thing, and so your dying actually means something.”
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Martyr!: A novel
Kaveh Akbar
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— Nov 02, 2025 06:19AM
Lovely!
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Martyr!: A novel
Kaveh Akbar
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Nicholas Andriani
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“It means, in my humble opinion, we got to cubism hundreds of years before Braque or Picasso or any European. That maybe we’ve been training for a long time in sitting in the complicated multiplicities of ourselves, of our natures. At least for a time. No monolithically good Siegfried hero versus monolithically bad dragon.”
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Nicholas Andriani
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“We all started from zero. From less than zero, actually. We started whiny, without grace. Obsessed only with our own needing. And the dead couldn’t teach us anything about that. No facts or tables or proofs. You just had to live and suffer and then teach your kids to do the same. From a distance, habit passing for happiness.”
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Martyr!: A novel
Kaveh Akbar
— Nov 03, 2025 07:10PM
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Nicholas Andriani
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“Whatever pretensions and high purpose he’d once held for his future gave way to the delicious primacy of the present”
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Martyr!: A novel
Kaveh Akbar
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— Oct 22, 2025 05:45AM
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Kaveh Akbar
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