"Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.
~ Albert Camus ~












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