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At first, I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry.
But then I thought, hey, they're building a house of poetry.
And so I laughed gleefully.
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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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