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1 " because no matter how we try to explain it—through religion or randomness, it doesn’t matter—existence just doesn’t seem to make any sense. "
― Ed Gorman , The Day the Music Died (Sam McCain, #1)
2 " I had a philosophy instructor at the U of I say that the only question that mattered in all of philosophy was Verlaine’s “Why are we born to suffer and die? "
3 " Even if it all ultimately means nothing, you’ve got to play the game not only for yourself but for the people you love. "
4 " Maybe life didn’t make sense but then it was our business, I guess, to impose meaning on it. "
5 " Meanwhile, I have the cats, and, worst of all, I’ve started to consider them family. I know guys aren’t supposed to like cats (out here, you still occasionally find the stout masculine type who goes out and shoots cats), but I can’t help it. They’ve won me over. "
6 " I guess I had, too, this melancholy, and somehow Buddy Holly dying at least gave me a tangible reason for this feeling. Maybe it’s just all the sadness I see in the people around me, just below the surface I mean, and the fact that there’s nothing I can do about it. Life is like that sometimes. "
