My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, …

J. M. Coetzee
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My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth. ✨ J. M. Coetzee (1990). Age of Iron, Random House Inc
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