What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun. —Ecclesiastes 1:9
Even Shakespeare stole.
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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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