"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."

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"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."

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"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."

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