"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know." --John Keats
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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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