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Thursday, 11 July 2013

Embracing Mortality - Cronenberg on Cronenberg

Posted on 03:42 by Unknown
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.



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