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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez • One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gold died from pancreatic cancer in 2018 at the age of fifty-seven. The day after, I drove around Los Angeles to eat three of his favorite Mexican dishes: smoked marlin tacos in Inglewood, a shrimp taco in Boyle Heights, the clayuda at an Oaxacan restaurant in Koreatown.
Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Auschwitz God died, and we are alone in a pitiless universe.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
They were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world, drifting they knew not where, without a hope of rescue, subsisting only so long as Providence sent them food to eat. And yet they had adjusted with surprisingly little trouble to their new life, and most of them were quite sincerely happy. The adaptability of the human creature is
... See moreAlfred Lansing • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Pesia had lost her entire family when they were taken out of the bunker.
Nechama Tec • Defiance
Our patients’ lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstan
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