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Old age isn’t a state of mind. It’s an existential situation.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Miss Mackay said to Sandy confidentially when her turn came round—because she treated the older girls as equals, which is to say, as equals definitely wearing school uniform—“Dear Miss Brodie, she sits on under the elm, telling her remarkable life story to the junior children. I mind when Miss Brodie first came to the school, she was a vigorous
... See moreMuriel Spark • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Each of us is a speck of dust that the wind of life lifts up and then drops.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
SONO’S DEATH POEM Don’t just stand there with your hair turning gray, soon enough the seas will sink your little island. So while there is still the illusion of time, set out for another shore. No sense packing a bag. You won’t be able to lift it into your boat. Give away all your collections. Take only new seeds and an old stick. Send out some
... See moreFrank Ostaseski • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
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Paul Murray • The Bee Sting: A Novel
His poems contain a luminous simplicity that expands until it pushes your ego out of the nest, and there you are, alone with Truth. In a Tranströmer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
La construction des Jardies, les mines d’argent de Nurra, la fabrication des pièces de théâtre — ces trois grandes folies montrent que, à quarante ans, il est resté, dans toutes les choses de cette terre, aussi naïf, confiant, inéducable qu’il était à vingt ou à trente ans.