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Quote by Robert C. Solomon

“J'ai lu les postmodernistes avec un certain intérêt avec même admiration. Mais quand je les lis, j'ai toujours cet horrible sentiment lancinant que quelque chose d'absolument essentiel est oublié. Plus on dit qu'une personne est un produit social, ou un confluent de forces ou fragmentée, ou marginalisée et plus on ouvre tout un nouveau monde d'excuses.”

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Robert C. Solomon

Robert C. Solomon was an American philosopher and psychologist known for his contributions to ethics and existentialism. His works covered a wide range of topics, including moral philosophy, human existence, and psychology. more

“Reading Aloud to My Father I chose the book haphazard from the shelf, but with Nabokov's first sentence I knew it wasn't the thing to read to a dying man: The cradle rocks above an abyss, it began, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. The words disturbed both of us immediately, and I stopped. With music it was the same -- Chopin's Piano Concerto — he asked me to turn it off. He ceased eating, and drank little, while the tumors briskly appropriated what was left of him. But to return to the cradle rocking. I think Nabokov had it wrong. This is the abyss. That's why babies howl at birth, and why the dying so often reach for something only they can apprehend. At the end they don't want their hands to be under the covers, and if you should put your hand on theirs in a tentative gesture of solidarity, they'll pull the hand free; and you must honor that desire, and let them pull it free.”

Grief Dying Comfort Fathers Daughters

Book:Otherwise: new and selected poems

Source: Otherwise: new and selected poems

“And as if he had read her thoughts, the old man murmured, 'What a blessing it is to die in your own bed, under your own roof, with your family surrounding you, full of the knowledge that you have lived as thoroughly as you wanted to.”

Dying Belonging

Book:Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

Source: Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

“Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.”

Inspirational Dying Survival

Book:Catch Me

Source: Catch Me