As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sac…

Kurt Vonnegut
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As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!, CNIB, 197
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