“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”
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French philosopher (1930-2004) 1930–2004Related quotes
Death-And After http://books.google.co.in/books?id=0tIQ-MGW6F8C&pg=PA19, p. 19
“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”
Un muerto en España está más vivo como muerto que en ningún sitio del mundo.
"Theory and Play of the Duende" from A Poet in New York (1940)
“The dead are way more organized than the living.”
Source: Un Lun Dun
“The living need charity more than the dead.”
The Jolly Old Pedagogue.
“A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.”
A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.”
"Pensées Tirées des Premières Éditions," Réflexions: Ou, Sentences Et Maximes Morales de La Rochefoucauld (1822)
Later Additions to the Maxims