“How could I have died and gone to hell without noticing the transition?”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
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“Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”
Source: Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
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