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This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Dave Eggers , in The Circle
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Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

Veronica Roth
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