Adam Roberts - Death Quotes

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Individually speaking, death is always a rupture, a violence. But taking a total view, death is the bell curve upon which the cosmos is balanced. Without it, nothing would work, everything would collapse, clogged and stagnant. Death is flow. It is the necessary lubrication of universal motion. It is, in itself, neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy.

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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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What's inside the box?
Doubt is there.
What's another name for doubt?
Death is another name for doubt. Death is what inflects the immortal certainty of the universe's process with uncertainty.

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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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That a human being had died did not distress her. Had it been somebody she knew it would have upset her; she wasn't a monster. Had it been somebody she cared about. But it was nobody she knew, and it would have been disingenuous to pretend that the death of somebody she didn't know affected her on an emotional level.

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