Life is only eating, fucking, and shitting if that is all you see.
Distracting yourself with bullshit is not the answer to existential angst. This is because existential angst is the distraction.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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