"Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
~ Cormac McCarthy ~
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Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
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