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"Dying is hard. Living is harder. Even harder is living on when life is fractured by timeless deaths. It takes an instant for death to become a fact, a single point in a time line, which eclipses all things in the past and eliminates any possibility for the future. Death is like Euclid's definition of the point in geometry: "A point is that which has no part."

"After Vincent die, a. couple of mothers asked if they oculd tell their children that he had died in an accident... I explained to the mothers that their proposal seemed to me a disrespect of their own children and a violation of Vincent's memory. Not calling a fact by it's name can be the beginning of cruelty and injustice."

What can I say to a young person who has strong convictions but a failure of imagination? Not much, really. The world, it seems to me, is governed by strong conviction and paltry imagination and meager understanding.

"What can I say to a young person who has strong convictions but a failure of imagination? Not much, really. The world, it seems to me, is governed by strong conviction and paltry imagination and meager understanding."