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Summerland Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi
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“We can never experience death. Death is not an event in life. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland
“That one difference between animals and humans is that humans rarely admit to themselves what it is they really want.”
Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland
“They had just sat together for a few hours, politely lying to each other, even if the lies were mostly true.”
Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland
“I was wrong about you, Comrade FELIX. I don’t think you are a coward. I think you are completely mad. But it is a glorious kind of madness.”
Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland
“The windmill you are tilting at is very high and ancient and English: privilege.”
Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland
“But that’s the thing about those we love. Sometimes they don’t have to be told the important things.”
Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland
“We are all comrades together, men and women, in the same shit.”
Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland
“It would have been easier for you in the Soviet Union, Mrs Moore. There we are all comrades together, men and women, in the same shit.”
Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland