“The dead are way more organized than the living.”
“The lively is always more contemplative than what is dead and sad.”
“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”
“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.”
“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”
“Dead is nothing more than the price we pay for this privilege of having lived at all.”