There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
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Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. -
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- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
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