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      You are actively trying to destroy it as your body is continually trying to preserve itself … you are your own worst enemy.

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        You are both the reason it isn’t already rotten, and the reason it inevitably will be, no matter how hard you try.

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          Neat the power of good and evil, yin and yang, the dead and the living … a constant balance between forces

          Where life may have momentary strength and periodically wins in the short term … death has stamina and plays the long game

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            Perhaps, though that seems a perspective biased by living, while the other 99.999% of reality would consider all life to be a fleeting anomalous spark that arcs brilliantly before returning to the collective abyss.