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“I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.” quote by Daniel Wu — Download Open image

“I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.”

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If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.

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Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and…

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Spread love and continue life. Keep creating life, that's my message!

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“Creating life as I go and editing when needed in order to move forward. Always under construction to do and be better than yesterday.”

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I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.

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Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.

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