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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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