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21 " Youth burdened with the full knowledge of how sad and painful aging is I would not call youth at all "
― Sigrid Nunez , What Are You Going Through
22 " Understood: language would end up falsifying everything, as language always does. "
23 " Dying is a role we play like any other role in life: this is a troubling thought. You are never your true self except when you’re alone—but who wants to be alone, dying? "
24 " I don’t know who it was, but someone, maybe or maybe not Henry James, said that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who upon seeing someone else suffering think, That could happen to me, and those who think, That will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us to endure, the second kind make life hell. "
25 " That's deep, he said with just a hint of mockery. You a psychologist?I told him I was a writer. "
26 " Self-care, relieving one’s own everyday anxieties, avoiding stress: these had become some of our society’s highest goals, he said—higher, apparently, than the salvation of society itself. The mindfulness rage was just another distraction. "
27 " People ought to be able to understand that this is my way of fighting, she says. Cancer can’t get me if I get me first. And what’s the sense in waiting, she says, when I’m ready to go. "