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“You know we are doomed anyway, right? Beg your pardon? No matter what we do, what we archive, what status we have, how much material wealth we acquire, we all die. Some of us in terrible pain whilst we do so… Life is inherently cruel, there is no other way of putting it.”

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Book:2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

Source: 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without truly living.”

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Book:Path to Choquequirao: A Short Story Collection

Source: Path to Choquequirao: A Short Story Collection

“Of course it will fade away just like these memories, they will simply disappear like an autumn leaf in the wind. Blown away by some external pressures, sentenced to die. The eternal cycle of life at its finest. Whether we like it or not but there it is… The sad truth, that everything changes and everything will die and decay one fine day.”

Memory Decay Fade Away Eternal Cycle

Book:Peruvian Days

Source: Peruvian Days

“As Carcosa crumbled away, it was like the end of an era. That mysterious glow around it faded, leaving just traces of what used to be. It felt like a story within the story. The name Carcosa, which used to sound like some secret code, now just hangs in the air like a faint memory.”

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Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“We all have to die one day, we might as well die with some obscure meaning attached to it.”

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Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“The sun sets and it is another reminder of the sheer fragility of time, a reminder that death and decay are always closer than we think”

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Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

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