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The quote questions the common idea that death is a defeat. It argues that calling death a loss already assumes life is a victory, and challenges that way of thinking. The point is to unsettle the habit of ranking living and dying as if one must win and the other must fail.
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About Hanya Yanagihara
American novelist, editor, and travel writer
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. She grew up in Hawaii and is known for her fiction and editorial work. She is best known for the bestselling novel A Little Life, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize. Yanagihara also served as editor-in-chief of T Magazine, and her work has reached readers through both long-form fiction and magazine writing.
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Books by Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
2016
To Paradise
2023
The People in the Trees
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