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These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.

David Mitchell

These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.

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