I thought of another one:
I have been with my common-law wife for over 10 years, and yet we don't have an anniversary, nor have we ever celebrated one.
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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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