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John Keats, On death, Composed 1814.
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Lora Mathis
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Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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He didn't give me my voice, but he sure did coax it out of me - even if it was in the most infuriating ways.
The Last Draig - J. D. Linton
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Why do the living assume the dead know better than we do? Like they gained some knowledge by dying, but why wouldn’t they just be the same confused people they were before they died?
Samantha Hunt, Mr. Splitfoot
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''It shouldn't surprise me, though. The truth - and the measure of her triumph - is that I never really knew her.''
Greg Egan, 'Blood Sisters' (Axiomatic, 1990).
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"Was I a terrible person, or was I just sixteen?"
Possession, Lauren Evers
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''Out of all those hundreds of billions, don't you think there'll be people who are just like you?' 'What are you talking about now? Reincarnation?' 'No. Statistics. There can be no 'reincarnation' - there are no souls to be reborn. But eventually - by pure chance - someone will come along who'll embody everything that defines you.''
Greg Egan, 'The Walk' (Axiomatic, 1990),
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''This is all I need: grief counselling from my own assassin.''
Greg Egan, 'The Walk' (Axiomatic, 1990).
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I lay in bed alone. And I longed for him. And he disgusted me. 
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Bloody Chamber
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Over the last two weeks, my feelings had changed from I want to help this intriguing woman to If anyone harms a hair on her head I'll tear their fucking limbs off. Extreme, yes. It didn't stop it from being true.
The Payback - Julie Weaver
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"When is a monster not a monster?
Oh, when you love it.
Oh, when you sing it to sleep."
Start Here, Caitlyn Siehl
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Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Mary Magdalene”
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Haruki Murakami
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when susan sontag wrote “I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it”
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