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"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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