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dsign 49 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions...

This. Forgetting is the biggest crime. Anything in the other direction is atoning.

IAmBroom 49 days ago [–]

Recite for me the names of even 100 people you have known who have died.

Otherwise, you are a terrible "criminal" by your own standard.

ceejayoz 49 days ago | [–]

Anyone who's passed high school history should be able to name a hundred dead people. Kings, Popes, Hitlers, Caesars.

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