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Quote by Paul Theroux
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. – Paul Theroux

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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. Its not about inventing. – Paul Theroux

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Travel
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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love. – Paul Theroux

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Hope
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If youre a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really dont like other people. Im not like that, I dont think. – Paul Theroux

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There is nothing glamorous about death. – Roger Moore

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Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. – Aeschylus

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. – Victor Hugo

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Life isnt fair. Its just fairer than death, thats all. – William Goldman

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