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Survival
Fiction or non-fiction book focusing on a person or group of people who must brave the elements, natural disasters, weather or other circumstances in order to survive. A theme common when people are shipwrecked or survive plane crashes. Survival can also be in books where society has crumbled or deteriorated and people must survive the changed world in isolated groups.
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The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you’ll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows.
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and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive
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― The Black Unicorn: Poems
― The Black Unicorn: Poems
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