‘Knowing that each of them may die at any moment,’ thought God, ‘they will not, by grasping at gains that may last so short a time, spoil the hours of life allotted to them.’ …But it turned out otherwise.
— Leo Tolstoy’s  ”Work, Death and Sickness” (via thesteppenwolf)

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