It is easy to die, ' replied the bannik. 'Harder to live.

Katherine Arden
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It is easy to die,' replied the bannik. 'Harder to live.' In this quote from a Russian fairy tale, the bannik makes a point about the difficulty in living. He says it is easy to die, but harder to live. In other words, it is easier to follow someone else's plan for your life and die at the end of it, but much harder to live a good life on your own.

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