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proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
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![“[A] right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality. For there is nothing terrible in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing…” quote by Epicurus](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/df5/epicurus-1642_death_a-right-understanding-that-death-is-noth_2918589.jpg)
