I was picturing more of an upper-crust figure saying this while seated in an Italian leather chair in his mahogany-laden private library. This, told to a detective who has uncovered the deception (and underlying insanity) of said figure.
I was picturing Anthony Hopkins reciting this in my face from a gigantic theatre screen.
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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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