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“From earliest childhood, an arrow of grief has been embedded in my heart. As long as it remains there, I am ironic — if it is drawn out, I will die.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Vol. 2: Journals EE-KK

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“The world isn't in your books and maps, it's out there.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

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“It is of interest of times to change, Mr. Helecki. And it is the business of gentlemen to change with them.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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“So violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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“It is the knowledge that I'm going to die that creates the focus that I bring to being alive; the urgency of accomplishment; the need to express love; now, not later. If we live forever, why ever even get out of bed in the morning? Cause you always have tomorrow. That's not the kind of life I want to lead.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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