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“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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tags death, fear, life, nostalgia

“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”

-Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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tags perception, perspective, time

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