There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.

~ Blaise Pascal

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Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.

~ Meredith Duran

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