“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thin...

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” Dissent - as proof of life

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They believe that death is stronger than life, and therefore dead things must be stronger than living things; whether those dead things are gold and iron and machinery or rocks and rivers and forces of nature.

G K. Chesterton • The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC)

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Teju Cole • Open City

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” - Emerson

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