Amazing Inconsistencies

What I am, simplified.

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All the heroes are dead. And the real heroes are the parents. Dying is a very simple thing. I’ve looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.
Ernest Hemingway’s letter to his parents after being severely wounded in Italy during WWI, from this collection of young Hemingway’s letters.  (via explore-blog)

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Paralyzed and silent in her bed, my daughter Paula taught me a lesson that is now my mantra: You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
In Giving I Connect With Others – beautiful and moving essay by novelist Isabel Allende on what losing her 28-year-old daughter taught her about the purpose of human existence.  (via explore-blog)

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