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It is like visiting one’s funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

When you’re 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity – but actually it’s about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Getting fired is hard.

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

How strange when an illusion dies. It’s as though you’ve lost a child.

It’s a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there’s an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.