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She had expected to encounter death as a kind of existential depth and had been disappointed. But maybe there was a deeper truth there. Maybe profundity actually is a mode of disappointment. The rhythm of the climax—joy and despair, sex and pain—is of course the currency of life. Death can only ever be a sort of anticlimactic belatedness.

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One of the curiosities of anger, of course, is that the more you focus it outward, firing it at the injustices of the world, the more it actually parses your own self-pity and resentment.

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Eva is perfectly content with her academic research, said Diana. She just isn't interested in power. As I say those sentences, she added, clasping her knees to her chest, I can tell they're both wrong. Aren't they? Of course she's interested in power.
She's a human being, agreed Iago.

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His last hours alive. But he didn't know!
None of us will know, of course. The weird grammar of death. You die, he or she dies, they die, but there is no genuine form for I. Not really. All know that, none know when.

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Jac considered: there were worse things that could happen than him dying. Of course, there were much better things too.

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I shouldn't be naive Diana said. Of course, realising its destructive power only makes them want it more. Of course. Even more than great wealth, power craves technologies of destruction. Good to be wealthy, but better to remain in power—and the more awe-inspiring the weaponry at your disposal, the better able you are to do that.

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