"Life isn’t a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn’t necessarily get the princess. So what? Who’d want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?"

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“Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.”

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