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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

“Well, faced with our mortality, we create stories of immortality. We strive to leave behind echoes of ourselves, reaching for infinity, eternity, on a finite, terminally ill planet!”

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Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“Our lives, reduced to mere hours, minutes, seconds, how cruel.”

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Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“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

“But we are always running out of time. There is never enough time. That is the sad predicament of life: To never have enough time. To start dying the second you are born…”

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Book:2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

Source: 2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

“Before my heart stops beating all I can do is admire the beauty of the seemly endless mortal stars that are decorating the night sky above me, illuminating my path to my next destination.”

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Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

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