Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over…

Tom Stoppard
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Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2007). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, p.124, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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