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"But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand."

— Agatha Christie

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"The Church of Euthanasia has as its four stations of the cross sodomy, suicide, abortion and cannibalism. In their activism towards the end of human life on the planet, their posthumanism interestingl…"

— Patricia MacCormack

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"The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you."

— Peter Shaffer

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"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interest…"

— Edith Wharton

Literature1862–1937

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