Author: Kelly Larsen

A Rite of Passage

“Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.”

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October 31, 2011
A Rite of Passage

“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”
-Victor Hugo

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October 18, 2011
The Next Chapter

“1” by Gabriello Chiabrera
William Wordsworth’s beautiful translation conveys a bold message

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October 17, 2011
A Rite of Passage

“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be one of the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.”
-Socrates

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October 11, 2011
The Next Chapter

“Song of Myself”
Walt Whitman sees the good fortune in dying

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October 10, 2011
A Rite of Passage

“To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
-Thomas Campbell

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October 4, 2011
A Rite of Passage

“Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

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September 27, 2011
The Next Chapter

“In Salutation to the Eternal Peace”
Sarojini Naidu’s poem emphasizes an enjoyment of life

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September 26, 2011
A Rite of Passage

“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
-Vladimir Nabokov

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September 20, 2011
The Next Chapter

“The Dead” by James Joyce
James Joyce shows us the importance of equilibrium between past and present

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September 19, 2011