"One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?"

Death, Memory, Forgetting, Afterlife

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"One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?"

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