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I read somewhere that some victims break their own bones trying to resist the sensation. I think that's quite telling. Then there's the permanent lung and brain damage.
You couldn't pay me enough. Money comes and goes, but you have one life to live.
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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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