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“La muerte, en abstracto, no nos importa. Lo que me importa a mí, y ahora lo descubro, es mi muerte. La mía. La mía sola, que nada puede arrebatarme y nadie puede compartir. [...] No es morir, no es siquiera saber que se va a morir, es saber que se va a morir y aceptarlo. Los perros se mueren y no lo saben, los más de los hombres se mueren y lo saben, pero no lo aceptan, llegan a la muerte como un niño al dentista, pataleando y chillando. Sólo reciben los plenos dones de la muerte los que saben y además lo aceptan. Los que celebran sus bodas con la muerte.”

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