"My existence from day to day has become……" — J M Coetzee
"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."
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J M Coetzee
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