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Just because something is not alive, does not mean that it is dead. You have to be alive first to be dead.

— Nnedi Okorafor Who Fears Death (2010)

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There is nothing that a man must believe that can’t be seen or touched or sensed.

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However, time doesn’t change the essence of what you are.

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When I am not moving toward my fate, it comes to me.

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