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The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? at least in sweden or scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. people then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.
-Karl Ove Knausgard
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The Way We Deny Death Says Something

Karl Ove Knausgard
The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? at least in sweden or scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. people then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.
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