Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

Rohinton Mistry
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than...
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than...
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than...
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than...
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Death and birth: what could be more monstrous than that? That is the way we like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish. The fact is we like to die and be born, we like the beauty and the horror, we like all the romance of this absurd business of living.

Source: A Fine Balance

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