“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
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“I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.”
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“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Lady Knight
― Lady Knight
“But what made It bearable were the friendships, of course, the camaraderie and the music and the Shakespeare, the moments of transcendent beauty and joy when it didn't matter who'd used the last of the rosin on their bow or who anyone had slept with, although someone - probably Sayid - had written "Sartre: Hell is other people" in pen inside one of the caravans, and someone else had scratched out "other people' and substituted "flutes".”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
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