"I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself f...

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~












Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
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