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Originally Posted by Crompsin
As an editor, do you feel that love has been damaged by the proliferation of Newspeak?
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No. Love was damaged by post-1950 wannabe poets.
Newspeak damaged (or destroyed) such words as freedom, truth, justice, democracy, socialism, and fascism.
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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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