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From the standpoint of the present, the future is always a derangement of ambitions.

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998)

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The conversion of mass to energy and light is the prerogative of every star.

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Death is a process as straightforward as mowing a lawn.

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Pills are the great infantilizers of our time. Adulthood can be wearying, and so some grow nostalgic about childhood dependencies.

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It takes real sangfroid to stare death out. Planning your own murder is a delicate undertaking, requiring as much foresight and paperwork as that invested by some girls into their first weddings.

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Psychological autopsies are also necessary to identify errors or oversights and expunge guilt.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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