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Godot51

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12. Decline

Reply to misanthrope (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2025, 09:33 PM

May 30

In reality we are in decline all of our lives.
Some quicker, some slower, some publicly and some privately.

Samuel Beckett wrote, in Waiting for Godot, "They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more".

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