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"Life - whatever else it is - is short maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open."
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"Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves."
"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."
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