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She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.

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Michel de Montaigne

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

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