Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completen…

Hannah Arendt
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1981). The Life of the Mind, p.180, HMH
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