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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

G.C. Lichtenberg

G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742–1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook B," aph. 37, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).

"Speech of a suicide composed shortly before the act."

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