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I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

Joan Didion
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Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.225, Vintage
I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.