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But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

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Dave EggersWhat Is the What

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secre...

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To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

Frustration of my plans to lighten the disaster will convince people that the future holds no promis...

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And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, ...

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Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change t...

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My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.

What interest hath this empty world in me? and what is there in it that may seem so lovely, as to en...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: W...

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The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wrec...

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I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessl...

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Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their ...

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The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal ref...

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But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inerti...

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Then the prophetess said to the witcher: "I shall give you this advice: wear boots made of iron, tak...

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