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Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. it is the smile of a corpse. now the hand of death touches life. the chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.
-Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. it is the smile of a corpse. now the hand of death touches life. the chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.
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