“For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.”
Source: The Wild (1995), p. 91
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Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”
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Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
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