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“Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.”

Moments Loss Identity Clarity Echoes Affirmation Moments Of Clarity

Book:Composing a Life

Source: Composing a Life

“There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that consciousness which considered transcience and loss to be part of the human estate; it was a world in which life was uncertain and the principal diety was fate or destiny or "wyrd."”

World Mind Humans Loss Consciousness Destiny Fate Civilization Dust Contemplation Principal Echoes Uncertain Estates Anglo Saxon Old English

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.”

Self Used Loss Used To Be Echoes Hollow

Book:Grimspace

Source: Grimspace

“I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams”

World Want Two Book Dream Hands Earth Loss Fiction Saws Solitude Reflection Riding Pale Echoes Spine Reverie Second Hand

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind