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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing


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I am the false character that follows the name around.



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Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.



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