To the degree, then, that life is found good, death must be proportionately evil. The more we are able to love another person and to enjoy his compan… - Alan Watts
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To the degree, then, that life is found good, death must be proportionately evil. The more we are able to love another person and to enjoy his company, the greater must be our grief at his death, or in separation.
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.
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