Nick K

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“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it that they go into the waiting room long before it has announced its arrival. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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“And still, these silly classes I took make up what turns out to be my higher education. It will always be a part of what I am, things happen and then fall away, it's no less permanent than what happens in a wrestling match. I have to live with all of it. And lately, twenty one years of living with things has begun to wear thin. Eighteen years of living with it, then graduating to three more years of living with it, where all you do is live with it. I'm up to my neck in it, I'm stuck with all this history and it never leaves me alone. It's enough to make you imagine what could have been different, to make you turn over small thoughts about whether what you are is what you should be, whether you've made the correct choice. I just need one thing to live with that I want to live with. That'll be enough.”
― Gabe Habash, Stephen Florida

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