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censoriousness.
Censorious
drink. He should. It wasn’t polite to
“When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a man, to feed them, protect them. But any decent man can do it. A
When a man dies
woman …” His lips moved against my fingertips, a faint smile. “A woman takes life with her when she goes. A woman is … infinite possibility.”
A woman takes more with her when she goes
Do women hold back the evolution of such things as freedom and other social ideals,
Paradoxes
out of fear for themselves or their children? Or do they in fact inspire such things—and the risks required to reach them—by providing the things worth fighting for? Not merely fighting
to defend, either, but to propel forward, for a man wanted more for his children than he would ever have.
Paradoxes
It was possible to leave things behind—places, people,
memories—at least for a time. But places held tight to the things that had happened in them, and to come again to a place you had once lived was to be brought face-to-face with
what you had done there and who y...
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It was possible to leave things behind—places, people,
All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death the key to the gate that bars memory.
Loss
forgiveness, it was not a thing once learned and then comfortably put aside but a matter of constant practice—to accept the notion of one’s own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates. And that worthy Athenian had embraced exactly that paradox, he reflected, with the ghost of a smile.
Death and Socrates
Much better to die than be left to mourn.
Better to die than mourn
