Chapter 223: Tombstones

 IN MEMORIAM
PURIFICACION C. ESPANTO

February 2, 1953 - April 21, 2015

"History will be erased in the universal purgatory."

Dejan Stojanovic

"Maybe Manhattan is purgatory."

A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

"Purgatory is hell with hope."

Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)

"Tears were a kind of language and I felt all language was far away from me. I was beneath tears. Tears were what you shed in purgatory. By the time you were in hell it was too late."

Matt Haig, Reasons To Stay Alive

"If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot."

Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"Remember, this day will never dawn again."

Dante Alighieri

"Her mother believed that love, in its most noble and worthy form, was sacrifice. To love her was to love purgatory."

Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

"We are master alchemists: We may not have discovered how to make gold out of lead, but we are able to make heaven out of hell, hell out of heaven, and purgatory out of nothing."

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

"Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

FEAR IS PURGATORY

I have died many times

And my episodes of death

Gave me the power

Over the greatest fears

The fear of life

The fear of self

Mawuena Addo

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