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"So, life, by definition, is impermanent. All the energy we spend in
trying to fix it, secure it, save it, protect it, leaves damn little
time for living it. Pain or death or any other pestilence doesn’t pass
over us because we're careful or because we have insurance or, God
forbid, because we have enough money. All right. So how does one come
to understand exactly how one wants to live? How one wants to use up
his time?"

Marlena De Blasi, A Thousand Days in Tuscany