For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
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