Tue 31 Aug 2021
The Dead
Posted by PJ under death, grief, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was—to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.â€
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras (tr. Lewis Galantière)
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