"It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal mea...
Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~
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Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.
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