"Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.“


-Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

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