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Or they could all be 16-year-olds. Have you ever been around more than three or four 16-year-olds at a time?
Now think of 72.
No fucking way. I'm hellbound, my friend. Sorry.
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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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