Every time you stand at a crossroads of life and death, you have two universes in front of you; one loses all relation to you because you die, the ot… - Kenzaburō Ōe

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Every time you stand at a crossroads of life and death, you have two universes in front of you; one loses all relation to you because you die, the other maintains its relation to you because you survive in it. Just as you would take off your clothes, you abandon the universe in which you are still alive. In other words, various universes emerge around each of us the way tree limbs and leaves branch away from the trunk.