I know. There's no excuse. He got addicted to them because he used them as means of escape just like everyone else—alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs included.
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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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