![There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.](/assets/img/quote-photos/there-is-nothing-more-terrible-i-learned-than-having-to-face-the-objects-of-a-d.jpg)
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