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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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November 28, 1948
(age 76)
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