If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that w…

Kurt Vonnegut
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If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1969). Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Random House LLC
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