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Existentialist
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Am I alone in an ensconced inner world where I obsessively worry about what happens to me, where the story of personal survival becomes the central theme of my shallow existence? I think not. Swaddled in our own brand of strangeness, we all struggle to come to terms with our demonstrated personal shortcomings. Our yearned-for life of living in pink skyways far removed from harm’s way is depressingly marked in contrast by our actual crabby existence spent scuttling along akin to a smug lobster, s
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― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
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Do you know existence is in its purest of state when it experiences total freedom? One is under the illusion of freedom when he is into self, apart and along with the people, and this illusion shatters the day one meets with the reality that like others he too is not alone and free; but in fact, a time comes in everyone’s life, the moment of death, when the realization is thrust upon that all this time it was the illusion of reality within the illusion of freedom that created a false sense of to
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― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
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