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“Book dedication: "To all who refused every form of complicity, even after learning, in bitter hindsight, that their wager on humanity was a losing bet.”

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Book:سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]

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سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]

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“Robinson had thoroughly enjoyed her evening at the opera. Her only previous experience had been a performance of Wagner, to which the Assistant Commissioner, an avid Wagnerian, had taken her a year before. It was a strange but admirable British characteristic, she had thought at the time, how little antagonism was directed against the great artistic creations of the enemy, even of Richard Wagner, the great idol of Hitler.”

Loss History Violence Sacrifice Hatred Descriptive Perspectives Senseless Violence Eye Opener Frontline Journalist

Book:The French Spy

Source: The French Spy

“Don't look for a net when you fall from the highest branch; the ground is always there, and it's always hard.”

Life Lessons Fall

Author:Unknown Author

“What is the point, she thinks, of loving something you are doomed to lose? Of holding on to someone who cannot hold on to you?”

Love Loss

Book:Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Source: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“I do not hold life dear enough to be afraid of death.”

Loss Depression Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers

Book:The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“... we always regret what we lost, even if it was just suffering.”

Loss

Author:Kovaly heda margolius

“When I worry about the birds, I am also worrying about watching all my possible selves go extinct. And when I worry that no one will see the value of these murky waters, it is also a worry that I will be stripped of my own unusable parts, my own mysteries, and my own depths.”

Loss Identity Vulnerability Extinction Environmentalism Inner Life Selfhood Connection To Nature

Book:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Source: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“I keep apologizing for being, me, even when I am not myself. I keep falling to pieces, even when I am not broken. I keep forgetting all the moments that died in my memory. I keep looking for anyone, but myself. How do I keep myself from leaving me behind?”

Love Poetry Lost Loss Self Love Misery Poetry Quotes Dementia Jenim Dibie Feeling Lost

Author:Jenim Dibie

“How little those things matter to me after all the loss, all the terrible things I have seen in this cursed war. But now, of course, it is too late. Perhaps this is a just punishment for those whohave been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. Now all I can say that you were a good daughter, Miriam jo., and that I never deserved you. Now all I can do is ask for your forgiveness. So forgive me, Miriam jo. Forgive me. Forgive me. Forgive me.”

Death Loss Regret Forgiveness Fatherhood

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I was lost and would remain lost and all I could expect was to survive. So I had made decisions like someone who wasn't a person, who just wanted to survive.”

Loss Identity Survival Self Awareness Resilience Isolation Dehumanization Emotional Struggle

Book:Borne

Source: Borne

“I meant it. But only if it was both of us. If it was just me, I would melt into the city. I would disappear and give up my name and my past and any hope of a home, and become no one.”

Love Loss Identity Transformation Vulnerability Belonging Self Sacrifice Anonymity

Book:Borne

Source: Borne

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