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The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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