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I can state from my own experience that what people fear in death is the loneliness of having to leave this world forever. Though people may not be consciously aware of all the phenomena around them under normal circumstances, the thought that that which makes them themselves will be lost forever is a terribly lonely thing. In sleep, that which is ourselves is not lost, merely forgotten.

— Kaneko Fumiko The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman (1991)

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Every joy that some experience is paid for by the sorrow of others.

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