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“How can we escape from you, life, except through death? Our sorrows are endless. Endure? Escape? Neither is easy. Yes, the beauty of nature is sweet—the earth, sea, stars, the orbit of the moon and sun. But all else is fear and pain. One day a bit of luck and then we wait for inexorable Nemesis.”

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