“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
Alexander Smith (1829–1867) Scottish poet and essayist
"The Fear of Dying".
City Poems (1857)
“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
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