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Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

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While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
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Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
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