Ag Lashari

“Being a person is not a goal that can be achieved but a purpose that must be sustained.”
― Martin Hägglund, This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free

“Not a single star will be left in the night.
The night will not be left.
I will die and, with me,
the weight of the intolerable universe.
I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions,
the continents and faces.
I shall erase the accumulated past.
I shall make dust of history, dust of dust.
Now I am looking on the final sunset.
I am hearing the last bird.
I bequeath nothingness to no one.

― Jorge Luis Borges, “The Suicide,” Selected Poems. (Penguin Books; Reprint edition, April 1, 2000) Originally published October 1st 1971.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Poems

“Readers are born free and ought to remain free.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature

“That those who are enslaved or live in poverty may need faith in God to carry on with their lives is not a reason to promote religious faith but a reason to abolish slavery and poverty. (27)”
― Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom