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To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

— Anne Rice The Vampire Lestat (1985)

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But death we are, and death have always been.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

The Vampire Lestat (1985)

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

Pandora (1998)

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

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