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“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith
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The world is quiet here.”
― Lemony Snicket
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Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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DTH- certain degree of non-functionality must be present in a minimal concept of death. The functions that one considers to cease with death, in turn, will correspond to those that the individual considers to be characteristic of living beings. For the Catholic grandmother, these are just the bodily functions, for under the Christian conception usually only the soul is considered immortal and so mental functions characterize both living and dead individuals. For atheists like the anarcho-punk teenager, in contrast, both bodily and mental functions cease upon death.
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DTH- Miguel de Unamuno, the Spanish philosopher: “try to fill your consciousness with the representation of no-consciousness, and you will see the impossibility of it. The effort to comprehend it causes the most tormenting dizziness.”
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