Friday, December 16, 2011

Superbly put

"Much of civilisation rests on the proper response to death, simple unalloyed kindness, the desire to show sympathy for irrecoverable loss, the understanding that a unique and irreplaceable something has been lost to us. If we ceased to care, we wouldn’t be properly human."

Peter Hichens on the death of his brother Christopher.

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