On the upward bend, I become less reserved, talkative and flirtatious.
On the downward bend, I become philosophic, if not existentialist.
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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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