And yet they, who are long gone, are in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our destiny, as blood that pulsates, and as gesture that rises up out of the depths of time.

— Rainer Maria Rilke 'Letters to a Young Poet' (1934)

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"To unravel the thread of a person's dance is to understand their present as well as their history."

"We cannot know who this person was, but we mourn his or her passing and feel a generalized sense of loss in the wake of history's rough treatment of the forgettable"