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You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2012). Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.53, Penguin
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You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2012). Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.53, Penguin

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