The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.

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At eighteen you sleep without memories.

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At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.

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Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

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And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.

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The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

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That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

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Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords

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However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

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