“Indeed, people are equal only in one thing: each of us is gifted a life, other differences are only notional; and what to do with one’s own life is at everyone’s discretion. The time has come to bestow upon us the most exalted gifts of serenity and joy. We silently trudged back upstairs. I fancied that I heard steps creaking and groaning throughout the entire stairway as if hundreds of invisible feet were stepping on them along with us. We were still alive but among the ghosts already.”
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