Rana Dasgupta quotes
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“You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.”
-- Rana DasguptaSource : Rana Dasgupta (2011). “Solo”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis,”
-- Rana Dasgupta
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“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.”
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“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.”
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