If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, w…

Neil Gaiman
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If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross. ✨ Neil Gaiman (2010). Smoke and Mirrors, p.253, Hachette UK
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