

“All of us who are living are dying. The only ones not dying are the dead.,,To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer

“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right , a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer

“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”
― The Humans
― The Humans

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles

“Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
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