
To Paradise: A Novel


The monolithic uncertainty of my future was deadening; everywhere I turned, the shadow of death obscured the meaning of any action. I remember the moment when my overwhelming unease yielded, when that seemingly impassable sea of uncertainty parted. I woke up in pain, facing another day—no project beyond breakfast seemed tenable. I can’t go on, I th
... See morePaul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
But little by little the oscillations become slower, to the point of resolving themselves in mild and melancholic long waves; from this moment on all is decided, and life is nothing more than a preparation for death. This can be expressed in a more brutal and less exact way by saying that man is a diminished adolescent.
Michel Houellebecq, To Litt (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Paul Hammond (Translator) • Whatever (Serpent's Tail Classics)
