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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly...more

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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to be...more

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I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it ...more

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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZO...more

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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.

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Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.I still cannot unde...more

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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

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Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, a...more

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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

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I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged wit...more

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My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all.

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Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellular bullfight. The pathologist's job is to find th...more

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Ageing is not easy, Sennhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology. It starts well. It's a most desirable ...more

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They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something e...more