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Mortality
You feel swamped with passivity and impotence: dissolving in powerlessness like a sugar lump in water.
from Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Christina Ducruet added 1mo ago
But, as with the normal life, one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less.
from Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Christina Ducruet added 1mo ago
Apparently, one of the symptoms by which it is made known is that a tough veteran will say, seeking to make light of his experience, that “what didn’t kill me made me stronger.” This is one of the manifestations that “denial” takes.
from Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Christina Ducruet added 1mo ago
Also, ordinary expressions like “expiration date”… will I outlive my Amex? My driver’s license? People say—I’m in town on Friday: will you be around? WHAT A QUESTION!
from Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Christina Ducruet added 1mo ago
his great turbine of a mind,
from Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Christina Ducruet added 1mo ago
This is what citizens of the sick country do while they are still hopelessly clinging to their old domicile.
from Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Christina Ducruet added 1mo ago
Although the day was bathed in sorrow, there was a magical quality to the afternoon as it spilled into the evening
from Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Christina Ducruet added 1mo ago
And we wouldn’t know it for certain until the day of his death. Earlier that day he had taken a
from Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Christina Ducruet added 1mo ago
For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.
from Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Christina Ducruet added 1mo ago