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"If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being."
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"You can cross the Rubicon in a boat without getting wet, but surely, getting wet is the baptism before you begin that new life on the other side."
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