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“Pain can be dismissed.”

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Marianne de Pierres is an Australian author known for her science fiction and fantasy novels. Born in 1961, she has been active in the literary world since the 1980s. Her works are characterized by their unique style and often incorporate social commentary and profound philosophical thoughts. more

“In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.”

“It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.”

Knows World Kind Mean Use Might Form Levels Generations Beats Conventions Weariness Beat Generation Flaunting

Author:Jack Kerouac

“There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.”

Singing Absent

Author:Jeff Buckley

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