"In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of the most he...
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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