We must live, you used to say, as if we were never going to die. - Didn't you know that's how everyone lives, including those obsessed with Death? (Emil Cioran)

We must live, you used to say, as if we were never going to die. - Didn't you know that's how everyone lives, including those obsessed with Death?

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