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“The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?”
“Opera cuts to the chaseas death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart.”
“There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.”
“Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.”
“Altitude reduces all things to their relative proportions, and to the truth. Cares, remorse, disgust become strangers: How easily indifference, contempt, forgetfulness drop away...and forgiveness d...”
“Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an...”
